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	28	+	STATE OF OKLAHOMA
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	30	+	1st Session of the 60th Legislature (2025)
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33	32		COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
34	33		FOR ENGROSSED
35		-	HOUSE BILL ~~NO.~~ 2729 By: Kendrix, Maynard, Jenkins,
	34	+	HOUSE BILL 2729 By: Kendrix, Maynard, Jenkins,
36	35		Lepak, Crosswhite Hader,
37	36		Stark, and Hill of the
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49	48		An Act relating to the Administrative Procedures Act;
50	49		amending 75 O.S. 2021, Section 318, which relates to
51	50		judicial review; providing for timing of accrual of
52	51		certain claim; requiring a court or an administrative
53	52		hearing officer to provide de novo interpretation of
54	53		statute, rule, or regulation; establishing guidelines
55	54		for court interpretation of statute, rule, or
56	55		regulation in certain actions; prohibiting imposition
57	56		of civil penalty in certain actions; providing
58	57		exceptions; updating statutory l anguage; updating
59	58		statutory reference; providing for codification; and
60	59		providing an effective date .
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67	66		BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
68	67		SECTION 1. AMENDATORY 75 O.S. 2021, Section 318, is
69	68		amended to read as follows:
70	69		Section 318. A. 1. Any party aggrieved by a final agency
71	70		order in an individual proceeding is e ntitled to certain, speedy,
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99	97		adequate, and complete judicial review thereof pursuant to the
100	98		provisions of this section and Sections 319, 320, 3 21, 322, and 323
101	99		of this title.
102	100		2. This section shall not prevent resort to other means of
103	101		review, redress, relief , or trial de novo, available because of
104	102		constitutional provisions.
105	103		3. Neither a motion for new trial nor an application for
106	104		rehearing shall be prerequisite to secure judicial review.
107	105		4. A claim under the Administrative Procedures Act accrues when
108	106		any plaintiff properly joined in the action has the right to assert
109	107		the claim in court, which at the earliest shall be the date the
110	108		party is aggrieved by final agency action.
111	109		B. 1. The judicial review prescribed by this section for final
112	110		agency orders, as to agencies whose final agency orders are made
113	111		subject to review, under constitutional or statutory provisions, by
114	112		appellate proceedings in the S upreme Court of Oklahoma, shall be
115	113		afforded by such proceedings taken in accordance with the procedure
116	114		and under the conditions otherwise provided by law, but subject to
117	115		the applicable provisions of Sections 250.5 and 319 through 324 323
118	116		of this title, and the rules of the Supreme Court.
119	117		2. In all other instances, proceedings for review shall be
120	118		instituted by filing a petition, in the district court of the county
121	119		in which the party seeking review resides or at the option of such
122	120		party where the property in terest affected is situated, naming as
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150	147		respondents only the agency, such other party or parties in the
151	148		administrative proceeding as may be named by the petitioner or as
152	149		otherwise may be allowed by law, within thirty (30) days after the
153	150		appellant is notifie d of the final agency order as provided in
154	151		Section 312 of this title.
155	152		C. Copies of the petition shall be delivered in person or
156	153		mailed, postage prepaid, to the agency and all other parties of
157	154		record, and proof of such delivery or mailing shall be filed in the
158	155		court within ten (10) days after the filing of the petition. Any
159	156		party not named as a respondent in the peti tion is entitled to
160	157		respond within ten (10) days of receipt of service. The court, in
161	158		its discretion, may permit other in terested persons to intervene.
162	159		D. In any proceedings for review brought by a party aggrieved
163	160		by a final agency order:
164	161		1. The agency whose final agency order was made subject to
165	162		review may be entitled to recover against such aggrieved party any
166	163		court costs, witness fees , and reasonable attorney fees if the court
167	164		determines that the proceeding brought by the party is frivolous or
168	165		was brought to delay the effect of said the final agency order.
169	166		2. The party aggrieved by the final agency order may be
170	167		entitled to recover against such agency any court costs, witness
171	168		fees, and reasonable attorney fees if the court determines that the
172	169		proceeding brought by the agency is frivolous.
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200	196		E. In the interpretation of a state statute, administrative
201	197		rule, or other regulation, the reviewing co urt or officer hearing an
202	198		administrative action shall not defer to the interpretation of a
203	199		state agency and shall interpret the meaning and effect de novo. In
204	200		an action brought by or against a state agency, after applying all
205	201		customary tools of interpretation, the court or hearing officer
206	202		shall exercise any remaining doubt in favor of a reasonable
207	203		interpretation which limits agency power and maximizes individual
208	204		liberty.
209	205		SECTION 2. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
210	206		in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 321.1 of Title 75, unless there
211	207		is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follo ws:
212	208		A. No civil penalty may be awarded in an action brought by or
213	209		on behalf of an administrative agency of this state aga inst any
214	210		person or legal entity for conduct that would also be the subject of
215	211		a suit at common law in which the defendant would be entitled to
216	212		trial by jury before a court established under the Oklahoma
217	213		Constitution, except after a trial by jury before such court.
218	214		B. The provisions of subsection A of this section shall not
219	215		apply to a summary judgment rendered in compliance with Title 12 of
220	216		the Oklahoma Statutes and any precedents establishing the standards
221	217		for summary judgment. Such requirement shall not apply to a civil
222	218		case in a court proceeding in equity jurisdiction that, prior to the
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250	245		passage of this act, did not involve a right to a trial by jury
251	246		before a court established under the Oklahoma Constitution.
252	247		SECTION 3. This act shall become effective Novemb er 1, 2025.
253		-	~~COMMITTEE REPORT BY: COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY~~
254		-	~~April~~ 22, 2025 ~~- DO PASS AS AMENDED BY CS~~
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