An Act
ENROLLED HOUSE
BILL NO. 4470 By: Wallace, Martinez, and
Fugate of the House
and
Thompson and Hall of the
Senate
An Act relating to the Department of Public Safety;
requiring that certain funds be utilized for certain
purposes; providing budgeting and expenditure
limitations and procedures; providing for lapse of
funds under certain conditions ; and requiring and
prohibiting certain budget procedures.
SUBJECT: Department of Public Safety
BE IT ENACTED BY THE P EOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. From the funds appropriated to the Department of
Public Safety in Enrolled Senate Bill No. 1040 of the 2nd Session of
the 58th Oklahoma Legislature, the Department of Pub lic Safety is
hereby authorized to expend Fourteen Million Two Hundred Thirty-one
Thousand Dollars ($14,231,000.00) to provide a pay increase to
commissioned law enforcement officers of the Oklahoma Highway
Patrol.
SECTION 2. From the funds appropriated to the Department of
Public Safety in Enrolled Senate Bill No. 1040 of the 2nd Session of
the 58th Oklahoma Legislature, the Department of Pub lic Safety is
hereby authorized to expend Five Hundred Thousand Dollars
($500,000.00) to provide a pay increase to persons serving as
Communications Dispatchers for the Department o f Public Safety.
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SECTION 3. From the funds approp riated to the Department of
Public Safety in Enrolled Senate Bill No. 1040 of the 2nd Sess ion of
the 58th Oklahoma Legislature, the Department of Public Safety is
hereby authorized to expend One Hundred Sixty-four Thousand Dollars
($164,000.00) to provide a pay increase to persons providing
security services at the Oklahoma Capitol building.
SECTION 4. From the funds appropriated to the Depart ment of
Public Safety in Enrolled Senate Bill No. 1040 of the 2nd Session of
the 58th Oklahoma Legislature, the Department of Pub lic Safety is
hereby authorized to expend One Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars
($150,000.00) to create and maintain the Mental Wel lness Division as
described in Enrolled Senate Bill No. 1613 of the 2nd Session of the
58th Oklahoma Legislature.
SECTION 5. Appropriations made by this act, not including
appropriations made for capital o utlay purposes, may be budgeted fo r
the fiscal year ending June 30, 2023 (hereafter FY-23) or may be
budgeted for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024 (hereafter FY-24).
Funds budgeted for FY-23 may be encumbered only through June 30,
2023, and must by exp ended by November 15, 2023. Any funds
remaining after November 15, 2023, and not budgeted for FY-24, shall
lapse to the credit of the proper fund for the then current fiscal
year. Funds budgeted for FY-24 may be encumbered only through June
30, 2024. Any funds remaining after November 15, 2024, shall lapse
to the credit of the proper fund for the then cu rrent fiscal year.
These appropriations may not be budgeted i n both fiscal years
simultaneously. Funds budgeted in FY -23, and not required to pay
obligations for that fiscal year, may be budgeted for FY-24, after
the agency to which the funds have been app ropriated has prepared
and submitted a budget work program r evision removing these funds
from the FY-23 budget work program and after such revision has been
approved by the Office of Management and Enterprise Services.
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Passed the House of Representatives the 18th day of May, 2022.
Presiding Officer of the H ouse
of Representatives
Passed the Senate the 20th day of May, 2022.
Presiding Officer of the Senate
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
Received by the Office of the Governor this ____________________
day of ___________________, 20_______, at _______ o'clock _______ M.
By: _________________________________
Approved by the Governor of the State of O klahoma this _________
day of ___________________, 20_______, at _______ o'clock _______ M.
_________________________________
Governor of the State of Oklahoma
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE
Received by the Office of the Secretary of State this ____ ______
day of ___________________, 20_______, at _______ o'clock _______ M.
By: _________________________________