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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
1st Session of the 59th Legislature (2023)
SENATE BILL 341 By: Rogers
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to state government; prohibitin g
certain officials from using certain public service
announcements and advertisements; providing
exceptions; 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 4263 of Title 74, unl ess there
is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A. Except as provided by subsection B of this section, no
elected official within three (3) months prior to a n election in
which the elected official ’s name will appear on the ballot shall
use or allow to be used such official ’s name, image, likeness , or
voice in a public service announcement or in an advertisement or
other promotional message created or purchase d using public funds.
B. Nothing in this sectio n shall apply during a declared state
disaster or emergency. For purposes of this section a “declared
state disaster or emergency ” means an event:
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1. For which a Governor ’s state of emergency proclamation has
been issued;
2. For which a Presidenti al Major Disaster or Emergency
Declaration has been issued; or
3. Such as another disaster or emergency event within the state
for which a good-faith response effort is requir ed and for which
another authorized official of the state designates such eve nt as a
disaster or emergency.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2023.
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