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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES - FLOOR VERSION
STATE OF OKLAHOMA
1st Session of the 60th Legislature (2025)
HOUSE BILL 2083 By: Blair of the House
and
Weaver of the Senate
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to officers; amending 51 O.S. 2021 ,
Section 6, which relates to dual office holding;
providing exemption from dual office holding
restriction for certain municipal law enforcement
officers, deputy sheriffs and campus law enforcement
officers; and declaring an emergency.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. AMENDATORY 51 O.S. 2021, Section 6, is
amended to read as follows:
Section 6. A. Except as may be otherwise provided, no person
holding an office under the laws of the s tate and no deputy of any
officer so holding any office shall, during the person 's term of
office, hold any other office or be the deputy of any officer
holding any office, under the laws of the state. The provisions of
this section shall not apply to:
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1. Notaries public;
2. Members of the State Textbook Committee;
3. County free fair board members;
4. Municipal and county law enforcement officers serving in
positions as law enforcement officers of both such governmental
entities upon such terms and co nditions as are mutually approved by
resolutions adopted by the board of county comm issioners and
governing body of the municipality employing such officers;
5. Municipal law enforcement officers who serve in an elected
or appointed position for a municip ality other than the municipality
for which the officer performs law enforcement ser vices;
6. Municipal law enforcement officers who serve in an elected
or appointed position for a county other than a county within which
any part or all of the incorporate d city or town for which the
officer performs law enforcement services is located;
7. Deputy sheriffs who serve in an elected or appointed
position for a county other than the county for which the deputy
sheriff performs law enforcement services;
8. Deputy sheriffs who serve in an elected or appointed
position for a city or town other t han a city or town the
incorporated area of which is located partially or whol ly within the
boundary of the county for which the deputy performs law enforcement
services for the county;
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9. Campus police officers, employed by a college or university,
who serve in an elected or appointed position for any county, any
city or any town;
10. Any person holding a county or municipal office or
position, or membership on any public trust authority, who is a
member of a board or commission that relates to federal, s tate,
county or municipal government and is created by the United States
government, the State of Oklahoma or a political subdivision of the
state, except where the duties of the offices or positions conflict;
6. 11. Any elected municipal officers and sch ool board members
who are appointed to a state board, commission, or similar entity if
there is no compensation for such services other than reimbursement
for necessary travel expenses pursuant to the provisions of the
State Travel Reimbursement Act;
7. 12. Any trustee of a public trust, who is appointed as a
trustee of a different public trust or any trustee of the Tulsa
County Public Facilities Authority who may also be e mployed by the
Department of Transportation;
8. 13. Law enforcement officers employ ed by municipal or county
law enforcement departments or agencies, other than those law
enforcement officers elected or appointed as sheriff, chief of
police or some simila r position in which they are the head of a
county or municipal law enforcement agenc y, who are elected to local
boards of education; provided, the provisions of t his paragraph
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shall not prohibit any law enforcement officer employed by a
municipality having a population of ten thousand (10,000) or fewer
people from serving as a member of a local board of education;
9. 14. Any member of the Oklahoma Highway Patrol Division of
the Department of Public Safety who is elected to a local board of
education;
10. 15. Any employee of the Oklahoma State Bureau of
Investigation who is elected to a l ocal board of education;
11. 16. Any District Supervisor, Assistant District Supervisor,
Team Supervisor, Parole Officer 1 or Parole Officer 2 of the
Department of Correct ions who is elected or appointed to a city
council;
12. 17. Any trustee or director of a rural electric
cooperative, or port authority who is appointed or elected to a
state, county or municipal board, commission or similar entity;
13. 18. County employees who are elected as members of town or
city councils;
14. 19. Municipal, county, state or tribal law enforcement or
peace officers operating under cross -deputization agreements with an
Indian tribe or branch of the federal government;
15. 20. Municipal or county law enforcement or peace officers
serving in positions as campus police officers or campus public
safety officers pursuant to the provisions of the Oklahoma Campus
Security Act, upon such terms and conditions as are mutually
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approved by resolution adopted by the governing body of the
municipality or county and the governing bo ard of the institution of
higher education;
16. 21. State law enforcement or peace officers serving in
positions as campus police officers or campus public safety officers
pursuant to the provisions of the Oklahoma Campus Security Act, upon
such terms and conditions as are mutually approved by written
agreement between the Commissioner of Public Safety and the
governing board of the institution of higher education;
17. 22. Municipal, county and state law enforcement officers
serving in positions as part -time or seasonal rangers or peace
officers under the Oklahoma Tourism and Recre ation Department or the
Grand River Dam Authority;
18. 23. Members of the University Hospital s Authority;
19. 24. Any person holding a state or county office or position
who is a reserve force deputy sheriff, or a reserve special agent
with the Oklahoma State Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs
Control or a reserve municipal police officer;
20. 25. Any person holding a state office or position who
serves as a special assist ant district attorney without
compensation;
21. 26. Any elected or appointed member of a local school board
who is a member of a municipal planning commission;
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22. 27. Any elected or appointed member of a local school board
who is a member or an officer of a volunteer fire department;
23. 28. Directors or officers of a rural water district and
chiefs of municipal fire departments or rural fire districts who are
appointed or elected to an unsalaried office in a state, county,
municipal, school, or technol ogy center school board, commission, or
similar entity, except where the dutie s of the office would create a
conflict of interest;
24. 29. Any person who is a dispatcher o r confinement officer
at a municipal or county jail who is a noncompensated reserve
municipal police officer or a reserve deputy sheriff;
25. 30. Any person who is an assistant district attorney
serving as a municipal judge or prosecutor;
26. 31. Any park ranger under the Oklahoma Tourism and
Recreation Department or any game warden or reserve game warden
employed by the Department of Wildlife Conservation who is elected
or appointed to a local board of education or to a municipal
governing body, board, c ommission or similar entity;
27. 32. Members of the Oklahoma State University Medic al Center
Authority, the Oklahoma State University Medical Trust or the State
Board of Osteopathic Examiners;
28. 33. Any member of the state Legislature or any state
officer who serves on the board of trustees of the Oklahoma School
for the Visual and Pe rforming Arts;
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29. 34. Members of the Council on Judicial Complaints; and
30. 35. Any person who is a state employee but not a member of
the state military forces, includ ing district attorneys, assistant
district attorneys, district court judges, associa te district court
judges and special judges, when detailed as a military trial judge
pursuant to Section 826 of Title 44 of the Oklahoma Statutes or when
serving as an appellate military judge pursuant to Section 866 of
Title 44 of the Oklahoma Statutes wh en the Military Court of Appeals
is convened. The rules of procedure prescrib ed by the State Judge
Advocate pursuant to subsection L of Section 866 of Title 44 of the
Oklahoma Statutes shall define what constitutes the Military Court
of Appeals being "convened" for purposes of this paragraph.
The provisions of this section shall not prohibit any person
holding an office under the laws of the state or any deputy of any
officer so holding any office from serving upon the board of
Oklahoma Futures or upon the board of directors of the Oklahoma
Center for the Advancement of Science and Technology. The
provisions of this section shall not prohibit a member of the board
of directors of the Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science
and Technology from servin g upon the board of Oklahoma Futures.
B. Except as provided in subsection C of this section,
salaries, emoluments or benefits that would otherwise be paid by the
agency or political subdivision to a loaned employee or officer
shall instead be paid to the regular employer of such employee. The
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loaned employee shall in turn be paid regular salary and benefits
the same as if continuing regular employment with the permanent
employer.
C. Any person excepted pursuant to paragraph 30 35 of
subsection A of this section, when retained as a military trial
judge or when serving as a military appellate judge when the
Military Court of Appeals is convened, shall be entitled to military
judicial leave in accordance with Section 209 of Title 44 of the
Oklahoma Statutes.
SECTION 2. It being immediately necessary for the preservati on
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 a nd approval.
COMMITTEE REPORT BY: COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OVERSIGHT, dated
03/04/2025 - DO PASS, As Coauthored.