STATE OF OKLAHOMA

1st Session of the 54th Legislature (2013)

SENATE BILL 479	By:	Wyrick

AS INTRODUCED

An Act relating to the Legislature; requiring budget hearings for certain entities; providing a definition; 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 456.4 of Title 74, unless there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
The Legislature is directed, in addition to other duties and responsibilities which may be assigned to it, to conduct or cause to be conducted budget hearings of any or all state agencies which do not receive an appropriation from the Legislature.  For the purpose of this section, "state agencies" includes, but is not limited to, any constitutionally or statutorily created agency, board, bureau, commission, office, institution, authority, and any other person or administrative division of state government expending or encumbering state funds, handling money on behalf of the state, or holding any trust funds on behalf of the state from any source derived.  The term "state agency" shall not include any political subdivision of the state.
SECTION 2.  This act shall become effective November 1, 2013.

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