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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
1st Session of the 58th Legislature (2021)
HOUSE BILL 2704 By: Bell
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to schools; requiring educational
institutions to provide notary for absentee ballots;
providing for codification; and prov iding 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 3249 of Title 70, unless there
is created a duplica tion in numbering, reads as follows:
All state educational institutions within the Oklahoma State
System of Higher Education shall make at least one full -time staff
member available to notarize ballots during designated absentee
voting periods. The employee must be available during normal
business hours and their availability to notarize ballots shall be
widely advertised to the campus community no less than ten (10) days
before the absentee voting period.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2021.
58-1-6424 LRB 01/19/21