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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
1st Session of the 60th Legislature (2025)
SENATE BILL 74 By: Goodwin
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to appropriations; making an
appropriation to the Oklahoma Department of Commerce;
stating purpose; providing for impleme ntation of
program of compensation related to the Tulsa Race
Massacre; providing for collaboration between
Oklahoma Department of Commerce and certain
committee; providing for membership; creating the
Tulsa Race Massacre Compensation Revolving Fund;
providing for sources of revenues; providing purposes
of fund; providing for expend itures; providing for
noncodification; providing for codification;
providing an effective date; and declaring an
emergency.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE O F OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated to the Oklahoma
Department of Commerce from any monies not otherwise appropriated
from the General Revenue Fund of the State Treasury for the fiscal
year ending June 30, 202 5, the sum of Three Hundred Million Dollars
($300,000,000.00) to implement a program of rep arations for damages
to persons and property that occurred during the events of
approximately May 31 , 1921, through June 1, 1921, in the City of
Tulsa, which events shall be known as the “Tulsa Race Massacre”.
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SECTION 2. NEW LAW A new section of law not to be
codified in the Oklahoma Statutes reads as follows:
A. The Oklahoma Department of Commerce, with the assistance of
nonprofit organizations or any othe r state agency, board,
commission, or department with information or resource s that could
be of assistance to the Department, shall create and administer a
program pursuant to which survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre and
descendants of victims of the Tul sa Race Massacre may make
application to and receive payments from the Tulsa Race Massacre
Compensation Revolving Fund created pursuant to Section 3 of this
act.
B. The Oklahoma Department of Commerce shall work in
conjunction with and receive input from a committee to be composed
of the following persons:
1. A member of the Sena te whose district includes the Greenwood
District in Tulsa;
2. A member of the House of Representatives whose district
includes the Greenwood District in Tulsa; and
3. A member to be appointed by the Chief Executive Officer of
the Oklahoma Department of Commerce .
C. The member of the Senate shall convene meetings to select
six other persons to constitute the committee for a total membership
of nine (9) persons.
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D. The persons to be selected shall be capable, community -
oriented persons representative of the historically and adversely
affected areas of the City of Tulsa.
E. The persons selected may include, but shall not be limited
to, historians, clergy members, attorneys, advocates, accountants,
and genealogists.
F. Nonprofit organizations or a state agency, board,
commission, department, or other entity of state government with
information or resources may provide assistance to the committee
members.
SECTION 3. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 25001 of Title 74, unless there
is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
There is hereby created in the State Treasury a revolving fund
for the Oklahoma Department of Commerce to be designated the “Tulsa
Race Massacre Compensation Revolving Fund ”. The fund shall be a
continuing fund, not subject to fiscal year limitations, and shall
consist of all monies received by the Oklahoma Department of
Commerce from appropriations and such other sources designated for
deposit in the fund. All monies accruing to the credit of the fund
are hereby appropriated and may be budgeted and expended by the
Oklahoma Department of Commerce for the purpose of making payments
relating to damage to persons and property during the events of
approximately May 31 , 1921, through June 1, 1921, in the City of
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Tulsa, which events for purposes of this act shall be designated the
“Tulsa Race Massacre”. Expenditures from the fund shall be made
upon warrants issued by the State Treasurer against claims filed as
prescribed by law with the Director of the Office of Management and
Enterprise Services for approval and payment.
SECTION 4. This act shall become effective July 1, 2025.
SECTION 5. 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 pas sage and approval.
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