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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES - FLOOR VERSION
STATE OF OKLAHOMA
2nd Session of the 58th Legislature (2022)
HOUSE BILL 3865 By: Lepak of the House
and
Quinn of the Senate
AS INTRODUCED
[ appropriations – distance learning - effective date -
emergency ]
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. NEW LAW A new section of law not to be
codified in the Oklahoma Statutes reads as follows:
There is hereby appropriated to the Department of Commerce fro m
any monies not otherwise appropriated from the General Revenue Fund
of the State Treasury for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2023, the
sum of Three Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars ($350,000.00) to be
utilized by the Department in partnership with a Feder al
Communications Commissio n (FCC) licensee associated with an
institution of the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education, for
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the purpose of establishing distance learning class rooms to deliver
multipronged educational resources, utilizing over -the-air
television broadcasts, o nline streaming and website accessible
archives delivering college credit classes, career training, and at -
home learning resources, with the intent of growi ng a statewide
network of public school delivery sites serving high school juniors
and seniors.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective July 1, 2022.
SECTION 3. It being immediately necessary for the preservation
of the public peace, health or safety, an emergency is hereby
declared to exist, by reason whereof thi s act shall take effect and
be in full force from and after its passage and approval.
COMMITTEE REPORT BY: COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS AND BUDGET, dated
03/02/2022 - DO PASS, As Amended and Coauthored.