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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES - FLOOR VERSION
STATE OF OKLAHOMA
2nd Session of the 59th Legislature (2024)
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
FOR
HOUSE BILL NO. 4127 By: Swope
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
An Act relating to elections; authorizing county
employees to use certain leave to serve a prec inct
official; 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 2-128.3 of Title 26, unless
there is created a duplication in numbe ring, reads as follows:
Full-time and part-time county employees of this state may be
granted up to three (3) days of paid administrative leave per
calendar year for the purposes of serving as a precinct official,
absentee voting board member or other election worker author ized by
law, if the employee is qualified by law to serve in such position.
Such administrative leave shall require the written approva l of the
employee's appointing authority and may be paid for hours serving in
excess of the employee 's standard daily wage. An employee granted
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administrative leave as described herein shall not be eli gible to
receive the daily payment provided to precinc t officials or absentee
voting board members.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2024.
COMMITTEE REPORT BY: COMMITTEE ON ELECTIONS AND ETHICS, dated
02/14/2024 - DO PASS, As Amended.