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SENATE FLOOR VERSION
February 15, 2024
AS AMENDED
SENATE BILL NO. 1493 By: Gollihare
[ state audits - cooperation - reports - codification
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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 212.5 of Title 74, unless there
is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A. The State Auditor and In spector shall conduct a performance
audit of spending on hom eless programs and services in this state,
including expenditures by the state, expenditures by munici palities
and counties with substantial homeless population s, expenditures of
federal funds allocated to the state for homeless programs, and
expenditures by state and local law enforcement agencies to address
homelessness.
B. All local governments and ins trumentalities of this state
shall cooperate with the audit and grant access, at no cost, to all
financial records and other programmatic inform ation necessary to
the completion of the performance audit. The audit shall examine
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the awarding of contracts and grants relating to homeless services
and supports, the metric used to determine success of the
expenditures, whether the metrics are met by the contrac tors and
grantees, and the efficacy of the use of data management s ystems in
relation to such programs.
C. Report of such audit shall be provided electronically to the
Governor, the Lieutenant Governor, the President Pro Tempore of the
Senate, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives no later
than December 31, 2024.
SECTION 2. 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 ac t shall take effect and
be in full force from and after its passage and approval.
COMMITTEE REPORT BY: COMMITTEE ON GENERAL GOVERNMENT
February 15, 2024 - DO PASS AS AMENDED