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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
1st Session of the 58th Legislature (2021)
HOUSE BILL 2929 By: McCall and O'Donnell
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to economic development; requiring
Oklahoma Department of Commerce to make certain
business recruiting info rmation available on agency
website; providing for confidential information;
providing for required content; requiring updates to
information; providing for codification; providing an
effective date; and declaring an emergency .
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 5003.51 of Title 74, unless
there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A. The Oklahoma Department of Commerce shall post on its
website information related to its business recruiting efforts with
an emphasis on possible business site location or relocation
decisions within the state.
B. The information on the website shall not disclose the
identity of any person or firm with whom or with which the
Department of Commerce is communicating regarding possible business
site location or relocation; provided, however, the Department shall
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include information on the website regarding possible l ocations or
relocations for a business site location decision organized by
county or by city or town indicating an estimate of the time frame
involved for the business site location or relocation decision .
C. A county, city or town , or instrumentalities, authorities,
agents or other authorized persons acting on behalf of a county,
city or town, may contact the Oklahoma Department of Commerce in
order to submit an application for economic development -related
services that might be offered to a prospective business enterprise
using the information from the website .
D. The information on the website required by this section
shall be updated by the Department when material changes occur that
indicate that a business will not locate in a county, city or town
or that a county, city or town has been excluded from consideration
or no less often than every thirty (30) days in all cases.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective July 1, 2021.
SECTION 3. It being immediately necessar y for the preservation
of the public peace, health or 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.
58-1-6946 MAH 01/20/21