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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES - FLOOR VERSION
STATE OF OKLAHOMA
2nd Session of the 58th Legislature (2022)
ENGROSSED SENATE
BILL NO. 1587 By: Simpson and Bergstrom of
the Senate
and
Hardin (Tommy) and Fugate
of the House
An Act relating to veterans; creating the K-I-A
Reinterment Fund; specifying use of fund; requiring
Director to establish procedure and criteria;
providing for codification; providing an effective
date; and declaring an emergency.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OK LAHOMA:
SECTION 1. NEW LAW A new section of law to be co dified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 35 of Title 72, unless there is
created a duplication in numb ering, reads as follows:
A. There is hereby created in the State Treasu ry a fund for the
Oklahoma Department of Veterans Aff airs to be designated the “K-I-A
Reinterment Fund”. The fund balance shall not exceed Three Hundred
Thousand Dollars ($300,000.00) and shall consist of:
1. All monies apportioned or allocated to the fund pursuant to
law;
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2. Any amounts appropriated by the Legislature to the fund; and
3. Gifts, grants, and other donations received for the fund .
B. All monies accruing to the credit of the fund are hereby
appropriated and may be budgeted and expended by the Department of
Veterans Affairs for the purposes of disinterring those who were
killed in action while in combat with a hostile force and
reinterment in a State Veterans Cemetery . Expenditures from the
fund shall be made upon warrants issued by the St ate Treasurer
against claims filed a s prescribed by law with the Director of the
Office of Management and Enterprise Services for approval and
payment.
C. The Director of the Department of Vetera ns Affairs shall
establish the application pr ocedure and the criteria for awarding
financial assistance.
D. All applications for reinter ment shall be approved b y the
Oklahoma Veterans Commission.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective July 1, 2022.
SECTION 3. It being immediat ely necessary 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 appro val.
COMMITTEE REPORT BY: COMMITTEE O N VETERANS AND MILITARY AFFAIRS,
dated 04/06/2022 - DO PASS, As Coauthored.