An Act
ENROLLED SENATE
BILL NO. 39x By: Thompson (Roger) and Hall
of the Senate
and
Wallace and Martinez of the
House
An Act relating to the Health Care Workforce Tra ining
Commission; making an appropriation; identifying
source; establishing amount; providing purpose;
requiring and limiting the utilization of funds;
creating certain spe cial account; limiting duration
of account; requiring certain determination;
providing and limiting the nature of account and
funds within account; authorizing agency to submit
request for certain deposit or transfer; requiring
certain compliance and v erification; authorizing
certain memorandums o f understanding; limiting scope;
prohibiting certain memoranda terms; authorizing and
limiting the promulg ation of rules and utilization of
procedures; authorizing and limiting the retention of
monies for administration costs; requiring certain
reports and submissions to certain entities;
requiring appearance before certain joint committee;
limiting duration of certain requirements; providing
determination process; and declaring an emergency.
SUBJECT: Health Care Workforce Training Com mission
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated to the Health Care
Workforce Training Commission from any monies not otherwise
appropriated from the Statewi de Recovery Fund of the State Treasury
created in Enrolled House Bill No. 3349 of the 2nd Session of the
58th Oklahoma Legislature the sum of Five Hundred Thousand Dollars
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($500,000.00) or so much thereof as may be necessary to establish a
grant program with Northwestern Oklahoma State University for the
purpose of recruiting, educating, and stabilizing Oklahoma’s health
care workforce. Such funds shall be utilized in a manne r consistent
with the recommendations adopted by the Joint Committee on Pandemic
Relief Funding on May 19, 2023.
SECTION 2. A. There is hereby created in the State Treasury a
Statewide Recovery Special Account for the Health Care Workforce
Training Commission for the appropriated monies provided for in
Section 1 of this act. The duration of such account shall continue
for the period of time that monies related to the American Rescue
Plan Act of 2021 are being budgeted, expended, or managed in the
state. The ending of such period shall be determined by the State
Treasurer and shall result in the closing of such account as a
matter of law. Such account shall be a continuing account as
otherwise provided in this section, not subject to fiscal year
limitations, and shall exclusively consist of monies related to the
relevant appropriation made in this act and as otherwise directed by
law. All monies deposited to the credit of such account are hereby
appropriated and may be budgeted and expended by the Health Care
Workforce Training Commission in accordance with the provisions of
this act. Expenditures from s uch account shall be made upon
warrants issued by the State Treasurer against claims filed as
prescribed by law wi th the Director of t he Office of Management and
Enterprise Services for approval and payment.
B. The Health Care Workforce Training Commissio n is authorized
to request in writing that the monies appropriated by the provisions
of this act be deposited or transferred to the account created
pursuant to subsection A of this section. No later than seven (7)
calendar days from the date of such reque st, the Director of the
Office of Management and Enterprise Services shall comply with such
request and verify to the requesting agency that such deposit or
transfer has been completed.
SECTION 3. The Health Care Workforce Training Commission may
enter into memorandums of understanding with o ther agencies of the
State of Oklahoma for the auditing, documentation, evaluation,
implementation, oversight, reporting, and management of funds and
associated efforts related to the appropriation made in this act;
provided, no such memorandum of un derstanding shall require or
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include, as an option or condition, the direct or practical transfer
or relinquishment of control by the agency appropriated such funds
to budget, expend, allocate, and request the distribution of the
funds appropriated by this act.
SECTION 4. The Health Care Workforce Training Commissio n may
promulgate rules, utilize existing rules, establish procedures, and
utilize existing procedure s to implement the provisions of this act,
provided such rules and procedures do not conflict with or impede
the provisions of this act.
SECTION 5. The Health Care Workforce Training Commission shall
retain no more than two percent (2%) of the fund s appropriated by
Section 1 of this act to reimburse:
1. Costs incurred by the Health Care Workforce Training
Commission; or
2. Costs incurred on t he agency’s behalf,
associated with the a dministration of the appropriated funds and
programming required by the Health Care Workforce Training
Commission under the provisio ns of this act; provided, no funds
shall be retained that would be disallowabl e under the provisions of
the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021.
SECTION 6. A. The Health Care Workforce Training Commission
shall:
1. Submit to the chairs of the Joint Committee on Pandemic
Relief Funding, or any successor of the Oklahoma State Senate or
Oklahoma House of Representatives legislative committee or joint
committee, as designated by the President Pro Tempore of the
Oklahoma State Senate and the Speaker of the Oklahoma House of
Representatives:
a. a written or electronic quarterly report detailing the
budgeting, expenditure, and management of all monies
appropriated in this act, and
b. a copy of all memorandums of underst anding and
contracts with third parties entered into by the
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Health Care Workforce Training Commission to
facilitate, assist, or administer powers and duties
provided to the Health Care Workforce Training
Commission under the provisions of this act; and
2. At the Joint Committee on Pandemic Relief Funding’s request,
appear before the Joint Committee no later than six (6) months after
the effective date of this act, and as otherwise requested by the
Joint Committee to provide a status update regarding the
implementation of the provisions of this act.
B. The provisions of subsection A of this section shall remain
applicable for the period of time that monies appropriated under
this act are being budgeted, expended, or managed in the state. The
ending of such period shall be determined by the State Treasurer,
and shall be reported to the Governor, President Pro Tempore of the
Oklahoma State Senate and the Speaker of the Oklahoma House of
Representatives.
SECTION 7. It being immediately necessary for the preservation
of the public peace, health or safety, an emergency is hereby
declared to exist, by reason whereof this act shall t ake effect and
be in full force from and after its passage and approval.
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Passed the Senate the 24th day of May, 2023.
Presiding Officer of the Senate
Passed the House of Representatives the 26th day of May, 2023.
Presiding Officer of the House
of Representatives
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 Oklahoma 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: _______________________________ __