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53	53	STATE OF OKLAHOMA
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55	55	1st Session of the 60th Legislature (2025)
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57	57	SENATE BILL 819 By: Alvord
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63	63	AS INTRODUCED
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65	65	An Act relating to the Administrative Procedures Act;
66	66	amending 75 O.S. 2021, Section 318, which relates to
67	67	judicial review; providing for timing of accrual of
68	68	certain claim; requiring a court or an administrative
69	69	hearing officer to provide de novo interpretation of
70	70	statute, rule, or other document; establishing
71	71	guidelines for court interpretation of statute, rule,
72	72	or other document in certa in actions; prohibiting
73	73	imposition of civil penalty in certain actions;
74	74	providing exceptions; providing for codification; and
75	75	providing an effective date .
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81	81	BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
82	82	SECTION 1. AMENDATORY 75 O.S. 2021, Section 318, is
83	83	amended to read as follows:
84	84	Section 318. A. 1. Any party aggrieved by a final agency
85	85	order in an individual proceeding is entitled to certain, speedy,
86	86	adequate and complete judicial review thereof pursuant to the
87	87	provisions of this section and Sections 319, 320, 321, 322 and 323
88	88	of this title.
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140	140	2. This section shall not prevent resort to other means of
141	141	review, redress, relief or trial de novo, available because of
142	142	constitutional provisions.
143	143	3. Neither a motion for new trial nor an application for
144	144	rehearing shall be prerequisite to secure judicial review.
145	145	4. A claim under the Administrative Procedures Act accrues when
146	146	any plaintiff properly joined in the action has the right to assert
147	147	the claim in court, which at the earliest shall be the date the
148	148	party is aggrieved by final agency actio n.
149	149	B. 1. The judicial review prescribed by this section for final
150	150	agency orders, as to agencies whose final agency orders are made
151	151	subject to review, under constitutional or st atutory provisions, by
152	152	appellate proceedings in the Supreme Court of Oklahoma, shall be
153	153	afforded by such proceedings taken in accordance with the procedure
154	154	and under the conditions otherwise provided by law, but subject to
155	155	the applicable provisions of Sect ions 319 through 324 of this title,
156	156	and the rules of the Supreme Court.
157	157	2. In all other instances, proceedings for review shall be
158	158	instituted by filing a petition, in the district court of the county
159	159	in which the party seeking review resides or at the opt ion of such
160	160	party where the property interest affected is situated, naming as
161	161	respondents only the agency, such other party or parties in the
162	162	administrative proceeding as may be named by the petitioner or as
163	163	otherwise may be allowed by law, within thirty ( 30) days after the
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215	215	appellant is notified of the final agency order as provided in
216	216	Section 312 of this title.
217	217	C. Copies of the petition shall be delivered in person or
218	218	mailed, postage prepaid, to the agency and all other parties of
219	219	record, and proof of suc h delivery or mailing shall be filed in the
220	220	court within ten (10) days after the filing of the petition. Any
221	221	party not named as a respondent in the petition is entitled to
222	222	respond within ten (10) days of receipt of service. The court, in
223	223	its discretion, may permit other interested persons to intervene.
224	224	D. In any proceedings for r eview brought by a party aggrieved
225	225	by a final agency order:
226	226	1. The agency whose final agency order was made subject to
227	227	review may be entitled to recover against such aggrieved p arty any
228	228	court costs, witness fees and reasonable attorney fees if the court
229	229	determines that the proceeding brought by the party is frivolous or
230	230	was brought to delay the effect of said final agency order .; and
231	231	2. The party aggrieved by the final agency or der may be
232	232	entitled to recover against such agency any court costs, witness
233	233	fees, and reasonable attorney fees if the court determines that the
234	234	proceeding brought by the agency is frivolous.
235	235	SECTION 2. NEW LAW A new section of law t o be codified
236	236	in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 318.1 of Title 75, unless there
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289	289	In the interpretation of a state statute, administrative rule,
290	290	or other subregulatory document, a court of this state or an officer
291	291	hearing an administrative action shall not defer to the
292	292	interpretation of a state agency and shall interpret the meaning and
293	293	effect de novo. In an action brought by or against a state agency,
294	294	after applying all customary tools of interpreta tion, the court or
295	295	hearing officer shall exercise any remaining doubt in favor of a
296	296	reasonable interpretation which limits agency power and maximizes
297	297	individual liberty.
298	298	SECTION 3. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
299	299	in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 321.1 of Title 75, unless there
300	300	is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
301	301	A. No civil penalty may be awarded in an action brought by or
302	302	on behalf of an administrative agency of this state against any
303	303	person or legal entity for conduct that would also be the subject of
304	304	a suit at common law in which the defendant would be entitled to
305	305	trial by jury before a court established under the Oklahoma
306	306	Constitution, except after a trial by jury before such court.
307	307	B. The provisions of subsection A of this section shall not
308	308	apply to a summary judgment rendered in compliance with Title 12 of
309	309	the Oklahoma Statutes and any precedents establishing the standards
310	310	for summary judgment. Such requirement shall not apply to a civil
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363	363	passage of this act, did not involve a right to a trial by jury
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365	365	SECTION 4. This act shall become effective Novemb er 1, 2025.
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