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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
1st Session of the 60th Legislature (2025)
SENATE BILL 701 By: Haste
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to higher education; amending 70 O.S.
2021, Section 4668, which relates to Northeastern
State University; modifying locati on of branch;
providing an effective date; and declaring an
emergency.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. AMENDATORY 70 O.S. 2021, Section 4668, is
amended to read as follows:
Section 4668. On July 1, 2001, there may be established a
branch of Northeastern State U niversity within the Tulsa
metropolitan area City of Broken Arrow . The Oklahoma State Regents
for Higher Education are authorized to make lower division and upper
division undergraduate and graduate course offerings at the
Northeastern State University branch in Broken Arrow available as
the State Regents shall determine are appropriate. Undergraduate
degree programs offered through Oklahoma State University/Tulsa
shall not duplicate those undergraduate degree programs offered by
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Northeastern State Univer sity in Tulsa Broken Arrow, as determined
by the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education.
The Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education shall fund
Northeastern State Univer sity at a level not less than its fiscal
year 1998 level, and its Education and General Budget shall be held
harmless from reductions in succeeding years.
It is the intent of the Legislature that Northeastern State
University in Broken Arrow be funded at a level consistent with the
average allocation and allotment of the institution s in the regional
funding tier as established by the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher
Education.
Beginning with the 2001 - 2002 academic year, degrees earned at
Northeastern State University Branch branch in Tulsa Broken Arrow
shall be designated as awarded by the Oklahoma State Regents for
Higher Education acting through Northeastern State University.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective July 1, 2025.
SECTION 3. It being immediately necessary for the preservation
of the public peace, health, or safety, an emergency is hereby
declared to exist, by reason whereof this act shall take effect and
be in full force from and after its passage and a pproval.
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