Oklahoma 2025 2025 Regular Session

Oklahoma Senate Bill SB260 Introduced / Bill

Filed 12/30/2024

                     
 
 
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STATE OF OKLAHOMA 
 
1st Session of the 60th Legislature (2025) 
 
SENATE BILL 260 	By: Mann 
 
 
 
 
 
AS INTRODUCED 
 
An Act relating to infrastructure; creating the 
Oklahoma Infrastructure Long -Range Planning 
Commission; specifying membership composition; 
providing for terms of membership; providing for 
reimbursement; requiring publishing and transmission 
of electronic reports; 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 1150 of Title 74, unless there 
is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows: 
A.  There is hereby created the Oklahoma Infrastructure Long-
Range Planning Commission to be housed under and staffed by the 
Oklahoma Department of Commerce. 
B.  The Commission shall be composed of twelve (12) members as 
follows: 
1.  The Chief Executive Officer of the Oklahoma Department of 
Commerce, or his or her designee;   
 
 
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2.  The Director of the Department of Transportation , or his or 
her designee; 
3.  The Executive Director of the Oklahoma Broadband Office , or 
his or her designee; 
4.  Two representatives of public utilities, as such term is 
defined in Section 151 of Title 17 of the Oklahoma Statutes, to be 
appointed by the Governor; 
5.  One representative of a municipal utility entity, to be 
appointed by the President Pro Tempore of the Senate; 
6.  Two representatives of Native American tribe s headquartered 
in this state, appointed by the Speaker of the House of 
Representatives; 
7.  One county commissioner from Tulsa or Oklahoma County, 
appointed by the President Pro Tempore of the Senate ; 
8.  One county commissioner from a county with a population less 
than one hundred fifty thousand (150,000) persons according to the 
latest Federal Decennial Census, appointed by the President Pro 
Tempore of the Senate ; 
9.  One current or past mayor of a municipality having a 
population less than thirty -five thousand (35,000) p ersons according 
to the latest Federal Decennial Census, appointed by the Speaker of 
the House of Representatives ; and 
10.  One current or past mayor of a municipality having a 
population less than seventy -five thousand (75,000) persons   
 
 
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according to the latest Federal Decennial Census, appointed by the 
Speaker of the House of Representatives . 
C.  The initial term of office of the appointed members shall be 
as follows: 
1.  One of each of the members appointed by the Governor, the 
President Pro Tempore of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House of 
Representatives shall serve a one -year term; 
2.  One of each of the members appointed by the Governor, the 
President Pro Tempore of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House of 
Representatives shall serve a two -year term; 
3.  One of each of the members appointed by the Governor, the 
President Pro Tempore of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House of 
Representatives shall serve a three -year term; and 
4.  One of each of the members appointed by the Governor, the 
President Pro Tempore of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House of 
Representatives shall serve a four-year term. 
D.  Each member shall hold office until the successor of the 
member is appointed and has qualified.  The term of office for each 
successor shall be for five (5) years.  A member of the Commission 
may be removed by the appropriate appointing authority for cause. A 
member appointed to fill a vacancy occurring before the expiration 
of a term of a member separated from the Commission for any cause 
shall be appointed for the remainder of the term of the member whose 
office has been so vacated.   
 
 
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E.  Members of the Commission shall receive no salary, but shall 
be entitled to travel reimbursement as provided by the State Travel 
Reimbursement Act, Section 500. 1 et seq. of Title 74 of the Oklahoma 
Statutes, from funds available to the appropriate appointing 
authority. 
F.  The Commission shall submit a report not later than November 
1, 2026, and every five (5) years thereafter.  The report shall 
detail economic development trends and the long -term infrastructure 
needs for this state, separated by Congressional boundaries, 
including, but not limited to, a prospective look at future demands 
on roads, bridges, highways, utilities, and water quality and 
quantity. 
G.  The report shall be published on a publicly available 
website and transmitted electronically to the Governor, the 
President Pro Tempore of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House of 
Representatives. 
SECTION 2.  This act shall become effect ive November 1, 2025. 
 
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