Oklahoma 2025 2025 Regular Session

Oklahoma Senate Bill SB1121 Introduced / Bill

Filed 01/16/2025

                     
 
 
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STATE OF OKLAHOMA 
 
1st Session of the 60th Legislature (2025) 
 
SENATE BILL 1121 	By: Deevers 
 
 
 
 
 
AS INTRODUCED 
 
An Act relating to taxation; creating the Joint 
Interim Committee on the Elimination of Ad Valorem 
Taxes; designating membership; desig nating co-chairs; 
authorizing meeting to convene; prescribing duties 
and powers of committee; requiring state agencies and 
political subdivisions to provide certain information 
and assistance; requiring submission of report; 
abolishing committee after cert ain period; providing 
for noncodification; providing an effective date; and 
providing conditional effective date . 
 
 
 
 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA: 
SECTION 1.     NEW LAW     A new section of law not to be 
codified in the Oklahoma Statutes reads as follows: 
A.  Upon the effective date of this act, there is hereby created 
the Joint Interim Committee on the Elimination of Ad Valorem Taxes.  
The committee shall be composed of ten (10) members as follows: 
1.  Five members of the Senate designated by the President Pro 
Tempore of the Senate; and 
2.  Five members of the House of Representatives designated by 
the Speaker of the House of Representatives .   
 
 
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The President Pro Tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the 
House of Representatives shall each designate a co -chair from the 
members of the committee. 
B.  The committee shall convene upon the joint call of the 
chairs. 
C.  The committee shall conduct a comprehensive study of 
alternative methods of taxation to replace local tax revenue from 
the elimination of ad valorem tax pursuant to the passag e of the 
state question proposed by Enrolled Senate Joint Resolution No. 12 
of the 1st Session of the 60th Oklahoma Legislature . 
D.  For each alternative method of taxation cons idered, the 
committee shall: 
1.  Consider whether political subdivisions that currently 
impose ad valorem taxes would have the authority to impose the 
proposed alternative tax; 
2.  Determine the average tax rate for the proposed alternative 
tax imposed by each type of political subdivision that would be 
necessary to generate the same amount of tax revenue as the amount 
of tax revenue lost as a result of the elimination of ad valorem 
taxes; 
3.  Determine, if appropriate, the effect that broadening the 
application of the proposed alternative tax at the local level would 
have on the tax rates identified pursuant to paragraph 2 of this 
subsection;   
 
 
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4.  Identify whether tax revenue generated by the alternative 
method of taxation would require redistribution to off set 
disparities in available local tax revenue as a result of the 
elimination of ad valorem taxes and, if so, evaluate the different 
mechanisms of redistribution available; and 
5.  Identify and examine any other issue required to be 
addressed to implement the elimination of ad valorem taxes. 
E.  Upon a request of the committee, a state agency or political 
subdivision of this state shall provide information for and 
assistance in conducting the study under this section. 
F.  Not later than July 1, 2028, the committee shall prepare and 
electronically submit to the Legislature a written re port containing 
the results of the study and any recommendations for legislative or 
other action. 
G.  The committee created pursuant to this act shall be 
abolished January 1, 2030. 
SECTION 2.  This act shall become effective November 1, 2025. 
SECTION 3.  The provisions of this act shall not become 
effective as law unless Enrolled Senate Joint Resolution No. 12 of 
the 1st Session of the 60th Oklahom a Legislature becomes effective 
as law. 
 
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