An Act
ENROLLED HOUSE
BILL NO. 2929 By: Wallace and Caldwell (Trey)
of the House
and
Hall and Rosino of the
Senate
An Act relating to the Oklahoma Department of Mental
Health and Substance Abuse Services; requiring that
portions of certain a ppropriated funds be used for
certain purposes; providing budgeting and expenditure
limitations and procedures; providing for lapse of
funds under certain conditions; providing an
effective date; and declaring an emergency .
SUBJECT: Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse
Services
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. From the funds appropriat ed to the Department of
Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services in Enrolled Senate Bill
No. 1125 of the 2nd Session of the 59th Oklahoma Legis lature, the
sum of Three Million Nine Hundred Forty -eight Thousand Seven Hundred
Sixty Dollars ($3,948,760.00) shall be used for annualization of the
state portion of Medicaid rates.
SECTION 2. From the funds appropriated to the Department of
Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services in Enrolled Senate Bill
No. 1125 of the 2nd Session of the 59th Oklahoma Legislature, the
sum of Eighteen Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars
($18,500,000.00) shall be used for the continuum of care for
children in crisis.
SECTION 3. From the funds appropria ted to the Department of
Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services in Enrolled Senate Bill
No. 1125 of the 2nd Session of the 59th Oklahoma Legislature, the ENR. H. B. NO. 2929 Page 2
sum of Four Million One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($4,100,000.00)
shall be reserved for implementation of potential consent de crees
entered during the 2024 calendar year.
SECTION 4. From the funds appropriated to the Department of
Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services in Enr olled Senate Bill
No. 1125 of the 2nd Session of the 59th Oklahoma Legislature, the
sum of Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($500,000.00) shall b e used to
maintain five pilot programs to provide offenders incarcerated in
county jails in the State of O klahoma access to United States Food
and Drug Administration -approved, evidence-based, medication-
assisted treatment for opioid and alcohol dependence . Treatment may
be administered while the inmate is confined in the county jail and
when participating in outpatient care upon release. Funding may
only be used for medical evaluations, the purchase o f United States
Food and Drug Administration-approved medication to treat opioid or
alcohol dependency, individual and group counseling services,
cognitive behavioral therapies and necessary medical and behavioral
health staff needed to maintain the progra m.
SECTION 5. The Commissioner of th e Department of Mental Health
and Substance Abuse Services may request through the Director of the
Office of Management and Enterprise Services the early transfer by
the Oklahoma Tax Commission of tax collections to the General
Revenue Fund for the purpose of early allocation to the Department 's
disbursing funds to alleviate cash-flow problems.
SECTION 6. Appropriations made by this act, not including
appropriations made for capital o utlay purposes, may be budgeted for
the fiscal year ending June 30, 2025 (hereafter FY-25) or may be
budgeted for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2026 (hereafter FY -26).
Funds budgeted for FY-25 may be encumbered only through June 30,
2025, and must be ex pended by November 15, 2025. Any funds
remaining after November 15, 2025, and not budgeted fo r FY-26, shall
lapse to the credit of the proper fund for the then current fisca l
year. Funds budgeted for FY-26 may be encumbered only through June
30, 2026. Any funds remaining after November 15, 2026, shall laps e
to the credit of the proper fund for t he then current fiscal year.
These appropriations may not be budgeted in both f iscal years
simultaneously. Funds budgeted in FY -25, and not required to pay
obligations for that fiscal year, may be budgeted for FY -26, after
the agency to which the funds h ave been appropriated has prepared
and submitted a budget work program revision removing these funds
from the FY-25 budget work program and after such revision ha s been
approved by the Office of Management and Enterpr ise Services. ENR. H. B. NO. 2929 Page 3
SECTION 7. This act shall become effective July 1, 2024.
SECTION 8. It being immediately necessary for the preservation
of the public peace, health or safety, an emergency is hereby
declared to exist, by reas on whereof this act shall take effect and
be in full force from and after its passage and approval.
ENR. H. B. NO. 2929 Page 4
Passed the House of Representatives the 28th day of May, 2024.
Presiding Officer of the House
of Representatives
Passed the Senate the 30th day of May, 2024.
Presiding Officer of the Senate
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 O klahoma 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: _________________________________
ENR. H. B. NO. 2929 Page 5