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53	53	STATE OF OKLAHOMA
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55	55	2nd Session of the 59th Legislature (2024)
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57	57	SENATE BILL 1720 By: Dahm
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63	63	AS INTRODUCED
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65	65	An Act relating to the Administrative Proced ures Act;
66	66	amending 75 O.S. 2021, Sectio n 318, which relates to
67	67	judicial review; requiring a court or an
68	68	administrative hearing officer to provide de novo
69	69	interpretation of statute, rule, or other regulation;
70	70	establishing guidelines for court interpretation o f
71	71	statute, rule, or other regulation in certain
72	72	actions; updating statutory reference; updating
73	73	statutory language; and providing an effective d ate.
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81	81	BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
82	82	SECTION 1. AMENDATORY 75 O.S. 2021, Section 318, is
83	83	amended to read as follows:
84	84	Section 318. A. 1. Any party aggrieved by a final agency
85	85	order in an individual proceeding is entitled to certain, speedy,
86	86	adequate and complete judicial review thereof pursuant to the
87	87	provisions of this section and Sections 319, 320, 321, 322 and 323
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140	140	2. This section shall not prevent resort to other means of
141	141	review, redress, relie f or trial de novo, available because of
142	142	constitutional provisions.
143	143	3. Neither a motion for new trial nor an application for
144	144	rehearing shall be prerequisite to secure judicial review.
145	145	B. 1. The judicial review prescribed by this section for final
146	146	agency orders, as to agencies whose final agency orders are made
147	147	subject to review, under constitutional or statutory provisions, by
148	148	appellate proceedings in the Supreme Court of Oklahoma, s hall be
149	149	afforded by such proceedings taken in accordance with the proced ure
150	150	and under the conditions otherwise provided by law, but subject to
151	151	the applicable provisions of Sections 319 through 324 323 of this
152	152	title, and the rules of the Supreme Court.
153	153	2. In all other instances, proceedings for review shall be
154	154	instituted by filing a petition, in the district court of the county
155	155	in which the party seeking review resides or at the option of such
156	156	party where the property interest affected is situated, naming as
157	157	respondents only the agency, such other party or parties in the
158	158	administrative proceeding as may be named by the petitioner or as
159	159	otherwise may be allowed by law, within thirty (30) days after the
160	160	appellant is notified of the final agency order as provided in
161	161	Section 312 of this title.
162	162	C. Copies of the petition shall be delivered in person or
163	163	mailed, postage prepaid, to the agency and all other parties of
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216	216	court within ten (10) days after the filing of the petition. Any
217	217	party not named as a respondent in the petition is entitled to
218	218	respond within ten (10) days of receipt of service. The court, in
219	219	its discretion, may permit other interested persons to intervene.
220	220	D. In any proceedings for review brought by a party aggrieved
221	221	by a final agency order:
222	222	1. The agency whose final agency order was made subject to
223	223	review may be entitled to recover against such aggrieved party any
224	224	court costs, witness fees and reasonable attorney fees if the court
225	225	determines that the proceeding brought by the party is frivolous or
226	226	was brought to delay the effect of said such final agency order.
227	227	2. The party aggrieved by the final agency order may be
228	228	entitled to recover a gainst such agency any court costs, witness
229	229	fees, and reasonable attorney fees if the court determines that the
230	230	proceeding brought by the agency is frivolous.
231	231	E. In the interpretation of a state statute, administrative
232	232	rule, or other regulation, a court of this state or an officer
233	233	hearing an administrative action shall not defer to the
234	234	interpretation of a state agency and shall interpret the meaning and
235	235	effect de novo. In an action brought by or against a state agency,
236	236	after applying all customary tool s of interpretation, the court or
237	237	hearing officer shall exercise any remaining doubt in favor of a
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291	291	SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2024.
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