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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES - FLOOR VERSION
STATE OF OKLAHOMA
1st Session of the 60th Legislature (2025)
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
FOR
HOUSE BILL NO. 2518 By: Hilbert of the House
and
Gollihare of the Senate
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
An Act relating to military infrastructure funding;
creating the Base Infrastructure Needs and
Development - Technology Revolving Fund; establishing
the fund at the Oklahoma Military Department;
establishing revolving fund characteristics; deeming
funds appropriated; providing expenditure and
budgeting requirements and limitations; creating Base
Infrastructure Needs and Development – Technology
Program; establishing program at the Oklahoma
Military Department; authorizing certain utilizations
of funds; authorizing c ertain citations; providing
for codification; establishing an effective date; and
declaring an emergency.
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 301B of Title 44, unless there
is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
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A. There is hereby created in the State Treasury a revolving
fund for the Oklahoma Military Department to be designated the "Base
Infrastructure Needs and Development - Technology Revolving Fund",
which may also be cited as "BIND – Technology Fund". The fund shall
be a continuing fund, not subject to fiscal year limitations, and
shall consist of all monies directed for deposit to the fund by law.
All monies accruing to the credit of said fund are hereby
appropriated and may be budgeted and expended by the Oklahoma
Military Department for the purpose established in Subsection B of
this section. Expenditures from said fund shall be made up on
warrants issued by the State Treasurer against claims filed as
prescribed by law with the Director of the Office of Management and
Enterprise Services for approval and payment.
B. There is hereby established within the Oklahoma Military
Department the "Base Infrastructure Needs and Development –
Technology Program", which may also be cited as the "BIND –
Technology Program". The Department shall utilize funds from the
BIND – Technology Fund created in Subsec tion A of this section,
alone or in combinati on with other available funding, to make
infrastructure investments, including, but not limited to, the
purchase of licenses and software associated with military
simulation training, that will either:
1. Decrease the likelihood of military base and other military
infrastructure closures in this state, or
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2. Increase the likelihood of military base and other military
infrastructure expansions in this state.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effe ctive July 1, 2025.
SECTION 3. It being immediately necessary for the preservation
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 and approval.
COMMITTEE REPORT BY: COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS AND BUDGET, dated
03/03/2025 - DO PASS, As Amended and Coauthored.