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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
1st Session of the 60th Legislature (2025)
HOUSE BILL 1301 By: Fugate
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to elections; creating the Task Force
on Young Voter Engagement; providing issues task
force will examine; providing make up of task force;
directing task force to meet on certain days;
directing the Oklahoma House of Representatives to
provide space; clarifying meet ings are subject to the
Open Meetings Act; directing task force to publish
report by certain date; providing fo r 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 23 -101 of Title 26, unless there
is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A. There is hereby created to continue until December 31, 2027,
the Task Force on Young Voter Engagement. The task force will
examine the issues related to voter turnout for voters under the age
of thirty (30) years and shall provide a report with recommendations
to the Legislature and the Governor 's Office.
B. The task force will have nine (9) members as follows:
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1. Three persons between eighteen (18) and twenty -four (24)
years of age appointed by the Governor;
2. Three persons between eighteen (18) and twenty -four (24)
years of age appointed by the Speaker of the Oklahoma House of
Representatives; and
3. Three persons between eighteen (18) and twenty -four (24)
years of age appointed by t he President Pro Tempore of the State
Senate.
C. The task force shall meet on the first Monday of each month
until December 31, 2027.
D. The Oklahoma House of Representatives shall provide space
for the task force to meet.
E. Meetings of the task force shall be subject to the Oklahoma
Open Meetings Act outlined in Title 25.
F. The task force shall publish its findings and
recommendations by December 1, 2027, including recommendations for
any resulting legislation.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2025.
60-1-10735 MJ 01/08/25