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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
2nd Session of the 59th Legislature (2024)
SENATE BILL 1261 By: Stanley
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to veterans memorials; creating the
Veterans Memorial Preservation Grant Program for
specified purpose; directing promulgation of certain
rules; creating the Veterans Memorial Preservation
Grant Program Revolving Fund; specifying type of fund
and sources of monies; providing for expenditure of
funds; 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 421 of Title 53, unless there is
created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A. There is hereby created the Veterans Memorial Preservation
Grant Program within the Oklahoma Historical Society . The purpose
of the grant program is to support the preservation of monuments
built as memorials to veterans in this state.
B. The Oklahoma Historical Society shall promulgate rules
establishing the Veterans Memorial Preservation Grant Program
including, but not limited to, eligibility criteria, the application
process, grant award amounts, and permissible uses of grants.
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C. There is hereby created in the State Treasury a revolving
fund for the Oklahoma Historical Society to be designated the
“Veterans Memorial Preservation Grant Program Revolving Fund”. The
fund shall be a continuing fund, not subject to fiscal year
limitations, and shall consist of all monies received by the
Oklahoma Historical Society from appropriations, gifts, donations,
grants, or Oklahoma Historical Society Board of Directors
allocations provided for the purpose of the Veterans Memorial
Preservation Grant Program. All monies accruing to the credit of
the fund are hereby appropriated and may be budgeted and expended by
the Oklahoma Historical Society for the purpose of awarding grants
under the Veterans Memorial Preservation Grant Program, and for
direct costs of admin istering the grant program. Expenditures from
the fund shall be made upon warr ants issued by the State Treasurer
against claims filed as prescribed by law with the Director of the
Office of Management and Enterprise S ervices for approval and
payment.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 202 4.
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