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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
1st Session of the 59th Legisl ature (2023)
HOUSE BILL 1394 By: Bashore
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to criminal justice statistics;
amending 22 O.S. 2021, Section 988 .15, which relates
to the Oklahoma Community Sentencing Act; modifying
name of certain division within the Oklahoma State
Bureau of Investigation; amend ing 74 O.S. 2021,
Section 150.17a, which relates to the Criminal
Justice Resource Center; modifying name of cert ain
division within the Oklahoma State Bureau of
Investigation; and providing a n effective date.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. AMENDATORY 22 O.S. 2021, Section 988.15, is
amended to read as follows:
Section 988.15 The Community Sentencing Division within the
Department of Corrections shall have the duty to:
1. Administer a statewide community sentencing system pursuant
to the provisions of the Oklahoma Community Sentencing Act and other
provisions of law;
2. Establish goals and standards for the statewide community
sentencing system and the local community sentencing systems;
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3. Promulgate rules pursuant to the Administrative Procedures
Act for the implementation and operation of the Oklahoma Community
Sentencing Act;
4. Provide technical assistance and administrative support to
each local community sentencing system. The technical assistance
shall include, but not be limited to, information on:
a. corrections system design,
b. administration,
c. development, monitoring, and evaluating of programs
and services,
d. program identification and specifications,
e. offender risk management,
f. supervision of offenders,
g. planning and budgeting,
h. grant applications, and
i. preparation and submission of documents, data,
budgets, and system plans;
5. Coordinate and collaborate with other state agencies for
services and technical assistance to each local community sentencing
system;
6. Apply for and accept money and other assets to be utilized
for support of a statewide communit y sentencing system and to
allocate and disburse appropriated funds to local community
sentencing systems through an appropriate funding method;
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7. Review, analyze and fund local system plans within budgetary
limitations;
8. Contract with local service p roviders and state agencies for
services to the local system;
9. Identify and solicit other funding sources and resources to
support the statewide community sentencing system;
10. Request post-audits of state funds;
11. Monitor and coordinate local syst ems;
12. Provide performance -based evaluations for all service
providers of the statewide system;
13. Report annually by January 15 to the Legislature and
Governor on the statewide system. The report shall provide an
evaluation of the effectiveness of t he Oklahoma Community Sentencing
Act in terms of public safety, appropriate range of community
punishments, cost-effectiveness, performance -based effectiveness in
reducing recidivism, utilization by the judici ary, resource
allocation, reduced state and loc al institutional receptions, if
any, and statistical data, including, but not limited to, community
sentencing participation by county, total number of qualifying and
nonqualifying community sentences per mont h for each local community
sentencing system, t otal number of community sentences ordered per
month, program participation and the annual average cost per
offender. A copy of the report shall also be submitted to the
Oklahoma Statistical Analysis Center, a division of the Office of
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Criminal Justice Statistics unit of the Oklahoma State Bureau of
Investigation, which shall publish the annual report on the website
of the Bureau; and
14. Disseminate information to local administrators and
community sentencing sys tems concerning corrections issues
including, but not limited to:
a. punishment options,
b. disciplinary sanctions,
c. resource allocation,
d. administration,
e. legal issues,
f. supervision and risk management,
g. treatment methodology and services,
h. education and vocational services,
i. service and program monitoring and evaluation methods,
j. grants and funding assistance,
k. data and record keeping, and
l. offender characteristics.
SECTION 2. AMENDATORY 74 O.S. 2021, Section 1 50.17a, is
amended to read as follows:
Section 150.17a A. Effective July 1, 200 9, the Criminal
Justice Resource Center of the Legislative Service Bureau shall be
transferred to the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation and the
Office of the Attorney General as follows:
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1. The functions of the Crim inal Justice Resource Center
relating to administration and research shall be transferred to the
Office of Criminal Justice S tatistics, which is hereby created
within the Information Services Di vision of the Oklahoma State
Bureau of Investigation;
2. The functions of the Criminal Justice Resource Center
relating to data processing and information technology shall be
transferred to the Information Technology Systems Division of the
Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation; and
3. The functions of the Crimina l Justice Resource Center
relating to the Domestic Violence Fatality Review Board shall be
transferred to the Office of the A ttorney General.
All unexpended funds, property, records, personnel a nd any
outstanding financial obligations or encumbrances of th e Criminal
Justice Resource Center are hereby transferred to the entities
specified in this subsection .
B. Effective July 1, 2009, the personnel transferred from the
Criminal Justice Resource C enter to the Oklahoma State Bureau of
Investigation and the Office of the Attorney General and persons
occupying the position of any such personnel on July 1, 200 9, shall
become employees of such agencies and shall not be subject to the
provisions of the Merit System of Personnel Administration.
C. Effective July 1, 2009, any reference in the Oklahoma
Statutes to the Criminal Justice Resource Center shall be a
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reference to the Oklahoma St ate Bureau of Investigation or the
Office of the Attorney General, as appropriate with respect to the
content of the reference.
D. Upon the effective date of this act, the Office of Criminal
Justice Statistics shall be known as the Statistical Analysis Ce nter
and shall be a unit of the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation.
SECTION 3. This act shall become effective November 1, 2023.
59-1-6198 GRS 12/08/22