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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
2nd Session of the 59th Legislature (2024)
CONFERENCE COMMITTEE
SUBSTITUTE
FOR ENGROSSED
HOUSE BILL NO. 2302 By: Pfeiffer, Wallace, and Deck
of the House
and
Hall and Stephens of the
Senate
CONFERENCE COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
An Act relating to agriculture; creating the
International Livestock Judging Com petition,
Shooting, and Precision Sports Grant Act; creating
the International Livestock Judging Competition ,
Shooting, and Precision Sports Revolving Fund;
directing the Department of Agriculture, Food, and
Forestry to administer the act; directing the Stat e
Board of Agriculture to promulgate r ules and adopt
certain guidelines; providing for grants; identifying
eligible grant recipients; providing for grant
limitations; providing for codification; and
providing an effective date.
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 21-1 of Title 2, unless there is
created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
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This act shall be known and may be cited as the "International
Livestock Judging Competition, Shooting, and Precision Sports Grant
Act".
SECTION 2. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statute s as Section 21-2 of Title 2, unless there is
created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A. There is hereby created in the State Treasury a revolving
fund for the Oklahoma Department o f Agriculture, Food, and Forestry
to be designated the "International Livestock Judging Compet ition,
Shooting, and Precision Sports Revolving Fund". The fund shall be a
continuing fund, not subject to fiscal year limitations, and shall
consist of all monies received by the State Board of Agriculture
from state-appropriated funds, federal funds, donations, grants, and
contributions from any public or private source and designated for
the purpose set forth in this section. All monies accruing to the
credit of the fund are hereby appropriated and may be budgeted and
expended by the Oklahoma Departmen t of Agriculture, Food, and
Forestry for the purpose of administering the International
Livestock Judging Competition, Shooting, and Precision Sports Grant
Act. Expenditures from the fund shall be made upon warrants issued
by the State Treasurer against c laims filed as prescribed by law
with the Director of the Office of Management and Enterprise
Services for approval and p ayment.
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B. The International Livestock Judging Competition, Shooting,
and Precision Sports Revolving Fund shall never exceed Five Hundred
Thousand Dollars ($500,000.00) at any given time.
SECTION 3. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statu tes as Section 21-3 of Title 2, unless there is
created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A. The Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry shall
administer the provisions of the International Livestock Judging
Competition, Shooting, and Precision Sports Grant Act.
B. The State Board of Agriculture shall promulgate rules and
adopt eligibility guidelines necessary to enforce and administer the
International Livestock Judging Competition , Shooting, and Precision
Sports Grant Act, including an applica tion process for grants.
Teams that receive grants must be comprised of Oklahoma students who
are members of a National FFA Organization chapter or 4-H team that
has won a national competition and is eligible to compete in an
international livestock judgi ng competition or members of a shooting
and precision sports team that is eligible to compete in a national
or international sports competition.
C. Grants shall be awarded to match the funds the teams have
raised in a one-to-one ratio (1:1), the total amount not to exceed
the estimated cost of the trip for an international livestock
judging competition, or an international shooting, and precision
sports competition.
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SECTION 4. This act shall become effective November 1, 2024.
59-2-11127 JL 05/22/24