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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
2nd Session of the 59th Legislature (2024)
SENATE BILL 1687 By: Dahm
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to agency operations; providing
procedures for federal rule and regulation review for
state agencies; authorizing the Legi slature to
disapprove implementation of certain rules and
regulations; prohibiting certain conduct upo n certain
disapproval; stating when certain rules and
regulations are operative; providing for certain
exemption from liability ; clarifying application to
certain rights, privileges, or interests gained by
certain persons; providing for codification; and
declaring an 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 308b of Title 75, unless there
is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A. Upon receipt by a state agency of a requirement for an
agency to adopt, follow, or otherwise submit to any new fe deral rule
or regulation or change to an existing federal rule or regulation,
or interpretation of any rule or regulation, that agency shall send
the federal rule or regulation by electronic mail to all members of
the Legislature and the Governor.
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B. By the adoption of a joint resolution, the L egislature may
disapprove the implementation of any federal rule or re gulation
imposed on a state agency.
C. Unless otherwise authorized by the Legi slature, whenever a
rule or regulation is disapproved as provided in subsection B of
this section, the agency subject to such rules or regulations shall
not have authority to f ollow, interpret, or abide by any
requirements of the rule or regulation as specified by the
Legislature. Any effective rule or regulation which would have been
imposed on an agency when the Legislature was not in session shall
be deemed null and void on the date the Legislature disapproves the
rule or regulation by a resolution as provided for in subsection B
of this section. Federal rules and reg ulations imposed on state
agencies may be disapproved in part or in whole by th e Legislature.
Upon enactment of any joint resolution disapproving a rule or
regulation, the agency shall file notice of such legislative
disapproval with the Attorney General.
D. A federal rule or regulation shall be deemed authorized for
state agency compliance, if dis approved by a joint resolution
pursuant to subsection B of this section which has been vetoed by
the Governor in accordance with S ection 11 of Article VI of the
Oklahoma Constitution and the veto has not been overrid den.
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E. State agencies and their employees complying with the
provisions of this section shall be exempt from l iability pursuant
to Section 155 of Title 51 of the Oklahoma Statutes.
F. Any rights, privileges, or interests gained by any person by
operation of a federal rule or regulation applied prior to the
adoption of a joint resolution pursuant to this section, shall not
be affected by reason of any subsequent disapproval or rejection of
such rule or regulation by either house of the Legi slature.
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 act shall take effect and
be in full force from and after its passage and approval.
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