Oklahoma 2024 2024 Regular Session

Oklahoma Senate Bill SB433 Amended / Bill

Filed 02/20/2023

                     
 
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SENATE FLOOR VERSION 
February 16, 2023 
AS AMENDED 
 
SENATE BILL NO. 433 	By: Boren 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
[ Oklahoma Department of Commerce - programs - 
published information - effective date ] 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA: 
SECTION 1.     AMENDATORY     74 O.S. 2021, Section 5017.1, is 
amended to read as follows: 
Section 5017.1. A. The Oklahoma Department of Commerce shall 
have the authority to e stablish, administer and enforce state and 
federal energy conservation programs including, but not limited to, 
implementing The Energy Conservation Act of 1975 (P.L. 94 -163), 
National Energy Extension Service Act (P.L. 95 -39, 42 U.S.C. Section 
7001 et seq.) and the National Conservation Policy Act (P.L. 95 -
619), except as otherwise provided by law. 
B. The Energy Conservation Services Division of the Oklahoma 
Corporation Commission is hereby abolished.  All personnel,   
 
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equipment, files, fixtures, funds, furn iture, publications and 
supplies, and all duties, functions, authority and contractual 
obligations that relate to the Energy Conservation Services Division 
of the Oklahoma Corporation Commission are hereby transferred to and 
vested in the Oklahoma Department of Commerce. 
C. Employees transferred to the Oklahoma Department of Commerce 
shall be classified and subject to the provisions of the Merit 
System of Personnel Administration as provided for in the Oklahoma 
Personnel Act.  The salaries, grade and/or cl ass of the employees 
transferred shall be adjusted to be com mensurate with comparable 
positions in the Oklahoma Department of Commerce. 
D. The full-time-equivalent employee positions funded through 
the federal energy conservation programs outlined in this section 
shall terminate upon the exhaustion of said the federal funding. 
E.  The Department shall make publicly available on its website, 
to be updated annually, information related to federal energy 
efficiency incentive programs.  The information provided shall 
include, but not be limited to: 
1.  Information regarding ongoing programs for individual 
households, multi-family housing, and any other energ y efficiency 
programs; 
2.  Information related to Oklahoma businesses that are 
promoting and implementing energy efficiency incentive programs; and   
 
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3.  Any other information that would promote public awareness 
and adoption of any available energy efficiency program. 
SECTION 2.  This act shall become effective November 1, 2023. 
COMMITTEE REPORT BY: COMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS 
February 16, 2023 - DO PASS AS AMENDED