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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
1st Session of the 59th Legislature (2023)
SENATE BILL 22 By: Dahm
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to agency operations; providing
procedures for federal rule and regulati on review for
state agencies; authorizing the Legis lature to
disapprove implementation of certain rules and
regulations; prohibiting certain conduct upon certain
disapproval; stating when certain rules and
regulations are operative; providing for certain
exemption from liability; clarifying application to
certain rights, privileges , or interests gained by
certain persons; providing for codification; and
declaring an emergency .
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. NEW LAW A new section of l aw to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 308b of Title 75, unless there
is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A. Upon receipt by a state agency of a requirement for an
agency to adopt, follow, or otherwise submit to any new federal rule
or regulation or change to an existing federal rule or regulation,
or interpretation of any rule or regulation, that agency shall send
the federal rule or regulation by electronic mail to all members of
the Legislature and the Governor.
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B. By the adoption of a joint resolution, the Legislature may
disapprove the implementation of any federal rule or regulation
imposed on a state agency.
C. Unless otherwise authorized by the Legislature, wh enever a
rule or regulation is disapproved as provided in subsection B of
this section, the agency subject to such rules or regulations shall
not have authority to follow, interpret, or abide by any
requirements of the rule or regulation as specified by the
Legislature. Any effective rule or regulation which would have been
imposed on an agency when the Legislature was not in session shall
be deemed null and void on the date the Legislature disapproves the
rule or regulation b y a resolution as provided for in subsection B
of this section. Federal rules and re gulations imposed on state
agencies may be disapproved in part or in whole by the Legislature.
Upon enactment of any joint resolution disapproving a r ule or
regulation, the agency shall file notice of such legislative
disapproval with the Attorney General.
D. A federal rule or regulation shall be deemed authorized for
state agency compliance, if disappr oved by a joint resolution
pursuant to subsection B of this section wh ich has been vetoed by
the Governor in accordance with Section 11 of Article VI of th e
Oklahoma Constitution and the veto has not been overridden.
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E. State agencies and their employees complying with the
provisions of this section shall be exempt from lia bility pursuant
to Section 155 of Title 51 of the Oklahoma Statutes.
F. Any rights, privileges, or interests gained by any person by
operation of a federal rule or regulation applied pri or to the
adoption of a joint resolution pursuant to this section, sha ll not
be affected by reason of any subsequent disapproval or rejection of
such rule or regulation by either house of the Legislature.
SECTION 2. It being immediately necessa ry for the preservation
of the public peace, health or safety, an emergency is hereby
declared to exist, by reason whereof this resolution shall take
effect and be in full force from and after its passage and approval.
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