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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
1st Session of the 60th Legislature (2025)
SENATE BILL 1011 By: Woods
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to the Legislature; providing for
temporary replacement of member of the Legislature
who enters active duty in the Armed Forces of the
United States; specifying selection procedure and
qualifications; stipulating dates of services;
granting certain powers, privileges, and duties to
temporary acting member; precluding certain
compensation; defining term; providing for
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 450.3 of Title 74, unless there
is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A. A member of the Legislature who enters active duty in the
Armed Forces of the United States as a result of being called to
duty, drafted, or activated does not vacate the office held, but a
replacement may be selected to serve as temporary acting officer as
provided by this section if the member will be on active duty for
longer than thirty (30) days.
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B. The member of the Legislature shall select a person to serve
as the temporary acting representat ive or senator, subject to
approval of the selection by a majority vote of the appropriate
house of the Legislature. The temporary acting representative or
senator must be:
1. A member of the same political party as the member being
temporarily replaced; and
2. Qualified for office under Article V of the Oklahoma
Constitution.
C. The temporary acting member of the Legislature shall begin
service on the date specified in writing by the member being
temporarily replaced as the date the member will enter a ctive
military service.
D. A temporary acting member of the Legislature has all the
powers, privileges, and duties of the office and is entitled to the
same compensation, payable in the same manner and from the same
source, as the member who is temporaril y replaced. The member who
is temporarily replaced shall not receive compensat ion during the
term of active military service.
E. A temporary acting member of the Legislature appointed under
this section shall perform the duties of office for the shorter
period of:
1. The term of the active military service of the member who is
temporarily replaced; or
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2. The term of office of the member who is temporarily
replaced.
F. As used in this section, “Armed Forces of the United States ”
means the United States Army, the United States Navy, the United
States Air Force, the United States Ma rine Corps, the United States
Coast Guard, the United States Space Force, any reserve or auxiliary
component of any of those services, or the National Guard.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2025.
60-1-344 DC 1/16/2025 2:23:08 PM