Oklahoma 2024 2024 Regular Session

Oklahoma Senate Bill SB1391 Engrossed / Bill

Filed 03/12/2024

                     
 
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ENGROSSED SENATE 
BILL NO. 1391 	By: Rogers, Gollihare, Rader, 
Pemberton, Dossett, 
Coleman, and Bullard of the 
Senate 
 
  and 
 
  Hilbert, Marti, May, 
Fetgatter, and Sims of the 
House 
 
 
 
[ Oklahoma Water Resources Board - Revolving Fund – 
appropriation - codification - effective date -  
 	emergency ] 
 
 
 
 
 
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 1085.7D of Title 82, 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 Water Resources Board to be designated the 
“Arkansas River Levee Improvement Revolving Fund ”.  The fund shall 
be a continuing fund, not subject to fiscal year lim itations, and 
shall consist of all monies received by the Oklahoma Water Resources 
Board from legislative appropriations provided for the purpose of 
providing levee improvements and matching funds for levee projects 
along the Arkansas River.  All monies accruing to the credit of the 
fund are hereby appropriated and may be budgeted and expended by the   
 
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Oklahoma Water Resources Board for the purpose provided for in this 
section.  Expenditures from the fund shall be made upon warrants 
issued by the State Treasu rer against claims filed as prescribed by 
law with the Director of the Office of Management and Enterprise 
Services for approval and payment. 
B.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, income and 
earnings on the fund shall accrue to the fund and may be used for 
the purposes provided for in this section. 
SECTION 2.  There is hereby appropriated to the Oklahoma Water 
Resources Board from any monies not otherwise appropriated from the 
General Revenue Fund of the State Treasury for the fisc al year 
ending June 30, 2023, the sum of Fifty Million Dollars 
($50,000,000.00) or so much thereof as may be necessary to perform 
the duties imposed upon the Board by law. 
SECTION 3.  This act shall become effective July 1, 2024. 
SECTION 4.  It being immediately necessary for the preservation 
of the public peace, health or safety, an emergency is hereby 
declared to exist, by reason whereof this act shall take effect and 
be in full force from and after its passage and approval .   
 
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Passed the Senate the 11th day of March, 2024. 
 
 
  
 	Presiding Officer of the Senate 
 
 
Passed the House of Representatives the ____ day of __________, 
2024. 
 
 
  
 	Presiding Officer of the House 
 	of Representatives