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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
1st Session of the 60th Legislature (2025)
SENATE BILL 217 By: Mann
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to the Council on Law Enforcement
Education and Training; establishing the Mental
Health Response Pilot Program; providing purpose;
stating certain criteria; requiring promulgation of
rules; establishing the Mental Health Response Pilot
Program Revolving Fund ; authorizing certain
expenditures by the Council on Law Enforcement
Education and Training; 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 3311.19 of Title 70, unless
there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A. The Council on Law Enforcement Education and Training
(CLEET) shall establish and develop a five-year pilot program called
the Mental Health Response Pilot Program . The purpose of the pilot
program is to provide licensed mental health professionals
throughout this state with CLEET certification to aid law
enforcement response to individuals with mental health crises.
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B. Licensed mental health professionals who receive CLEET
certification shall be added to law enforcement agencies determined
by CLEET in the following manner:
1. Fifteen such professionals to two agencies that serve a
population greater than three hundred thousand (300,000);
2. Six such professionals to two agencies that serve a
population greater than twenty -five thousand (25,000) but less than
three hundred thousand (300,000); and
3. One such professional to two county sheriffs’ offices that
do not have a professional pursuant to paragraphs 1 and 2 of this
subsection.
C. The Council on Law Enforcement Education and Training shall
promulgate rules to administer the provisions of this section.
SECTION 2. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 3311.20 of Title 70, unless
there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
There is hereby created in the State Treasury a revolving fund
for the Council on Law Enforcement Education and Training (CLEET) to
be designated the “Mental Health Response Pilot Program Revolvi ng
Fund”. The fund shall be a continuing fund, not subject to fiscal
year limitations, and shall consist of all monies received by the
Council on Law Enforcement Education and Training from
appropriations, donations, grants, or other sources of funding
provided for the purpose of providing licensed mental health
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professionals with CLEET certification to aid law enforcement
response to individuals with mental health crises . All monies
accruing to the credit of the fund are hereby appropriated and may
be budgeted and expended by the Council on Law Enforcement Education
and Training for the purpose provided for in this Section 1 of this
act. Expenditures from the fund shall be made upon warrants issued
by the State Treasurer against claims filed as prescribe d by law
with the Director of the Office of Management and Enterprise
Services for approval and payment.
SECTION 3. This act shall become effective November 1, 2025.
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