An Act
ENROLLED SENATE
BILL NO. 1587 By: Simpson and Bergstrom of
the Senate
and
Hardin (Tommy), Fugate, and
Roberts (Dustin) 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.
SUBJECT: Veterans
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 35 of Title 72, unless there is
created a duplication in numb ering, reads as follows:
A. There is hereby created in the State Treasury 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;
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
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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 State Treas urer
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 reinterment shall be approved b y the
Oklahoma Veterans Commission.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective July 1, 2022.
SECTION 3. It being immediately neces sary for the preservation
of the public peace, heal th 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.
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Passed the Senate the 8th day of March, 2022.
Presiding Officer of the Senate
Passed the House of Representatives the 20th day of April, 2022.
Presiding Officer of the House
of Representatives
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
Received by the Office of the Governor this _______ _____________
day of _________________ __, 20_______, at _______ o'c lock _______ M.
By: _______________________________ __
Approved by the Governor of the State of Oklahoma this _____ ____
day of _________________ __, 20_______, at _______ o'clock _______ M.
_________________________________
Governor of the State of Oklaho ma
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE
Received by the Office of the Secretary of State this _______ ___
day of __________________, 20 _______, at _______ o'clock _______ M.
By: _______________________________ __