ENROLLED SENATE
BILL NO. 63	By:	Johnson (Mike) and Myers of the Senate

			and

		Miller and Martin (Scott) of the House

An Act relating to the State Board of Career and Technology Education; providing for the budgeting of funds in certain categories and amounts; requiring performance measures for budget categories; requiring certain expenditure; providing for the duties and compensation of employees; limiting salary of the Director; providing budgetary limitations; providing minimum and maximum amounts for certain grants in accordance with certain formula; providing formula for the salary calculation of certain vocational education teachers; providing for distribution of funds allocated for the Opportunities Industrialization Center program; requiring certain responsibility of such center prior to disbursement of such funds; providing lapse dates; requiring and prohibiting certain budget procedures; providing an effective date; and declaring an emergency.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:

SECTION 1.  For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2010, the State Board of Career and Technology Education shall budget all funds in the following categories and amounts:

Category	Appropriation	Total

Business/Industry/Adult Education	$  6,547,154.00	$ 12,500,000.00

Local Schools Support	126,640,524.00	181,678,000.00

Statewide Services	12,478,306.00	28,413,000.00

Administration/Data Processing	5,165,422.00	7,249,000.00

Dropout Recovery/Youthful Offender/Skills Centers	   6,959,073.00	  12,725,000.00

TOTAL	$157,790,479.00	$242,565,000.00

The State Board shall develop outcome-based performance measures for each budget category.

SECTION 2.  Of the funds appropriated in Section 15 of Enrolled Senate Bill No. 216 of the 1st Session of the 52nd Oklahoma Legislature, the amount of Four Hundred Thousand Dollars ($400,000.00) shall be used for training and testing of firefighters who are members of volunteer fire departments in the State of Oklahoma.  This training shall include firefighter training and associated testing as well as first responder training and associated testing.

SECTION 3.  The duties and compensation of employees, not otherwise prescribed by law, necessary to perform the duties imposed upon the Oklahoma Department of Career and Technology Education by law shall be set by the Board.  The salary of the Director of the Oklahoma Department of Career and Technology Education shall not exceed One Hundred Twelve Thousand Four Hundred Fifty-five Dollars ($112,455.00) per annum, payable monthly for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2010.  The Oklahoma Department of Career and Technology Education for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2010, 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

Full-time-equivalent Employees	406.0

SECTION 4.  A.  The Oklahoma Department of Career and Technology Education shall provide grants in amounts not less than Five Thousand Sixty Dollars ($5,060.00) and not more than Eighteen Thousand Dollars ($18,000.00) in tiers based on program cost adopted by the Oklahoma Department of Career and Technology Education for each vocational education teacher program approved for reimbursement by the Oklahoma Department of Career and Technology Education.

B.  The salary of a vocational education teacher shall be calculated, subject to the approval of the Oklahoma Department of Career and Technology Education, on the basis of the months for which the teacher is actually employed, but shall not exceed two (2) months in addition to the school year as defined in Section 1-109 of Title 70 of the Oklahoma Statutes.  For each additional month such teacher is employed, the additional salary shall be calculated on the basis of one-tenth (1/10) of the base salary prescribed by the school district for a teacher of equal qualifications employed on a ten-month basis.

SECTION 5.  Any monies allocated for the Opportunities Industrialization Center program shall be distributed on a performance-based contract submitted by the Opportunities Industrialization Center to the Director of the Oklahoma Department of Career and Technology Education.  The Opportunities Industrialization Center shall be responsible for submitting financial reports on a monthly basis to the Oklahoma Department of Career and Technology Education for verification prior to the disbursement of the funds.

SECTION 6.  Appropriations made by Sections 15 and 16 of Enrolled Senate Bill No. 216 of the 1st Session of the 52nd Oklahoma Legislature, not including appropriations made for capital outlay purposes, may be budgeted for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2010 (hereafter FY-10), or may be budgeted for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2011 (hereafter FY-11).  Funds budgeted for FY-10 may be encumbered only through June 30, 2010, and must be expended by November 15, 2010.  Any funds remaining after November 15, 2010, and not budgeted for FY-11, shall lapse to the credit of the proper fund for the then current fiscal year.  Funds budgeted for FY-11 may be encumbered only through June 30, 2011.  Any funds remaining after November 15, 2011, 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-10, and not required to pay obligations for that fiscal year, may be budgeted for FY-11, 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-10 budget work program and after such revision has been approved by the Office of State Finance.

SECTION 7.  This act shall become effective July 1, 2009.

SECTION 8.  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.

Passed the Senate the 19th day of May, 2009.

	
Presiding Officer of the Senate

Passed the House of Representatives the 20th day of May, 2009.

	
Presiding Officer  of the House
	of Representatives