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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
1st Session of the 60th Legislature (2025)
SENATE BILL 976 By: Daniels
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to county officers; allowing for
certain counties to employ a county manager;
designating duties of county manager; amen ding 19
O.S. 2021, Section 1407, which relates to the
membership of county budget boards; providing for
certain ex officio member of county budget board;
making language gender neutral; 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 491 of Title 19, unless there is
created a duplication in numbering, reads as follow s:
The board of county commissioners of a county with a population
greater than five hundred thousand (500,000) according to the latest
Federal Decennial Census , with the approval of the county budget
board, may, by resolution, employ and set the salary of a county
manager. Such county manager shall:
1. Work with the board of coun ty commissioners, other county
officers, and county employees to improve the efficiency of county
government operations ;
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2. Oversee a county human resources department;
3. Assist the board of county commissioners and county budget
board with developing and implementing the county budget;
4. Oversee a county information technology department;
5. Serve as an ex officio member of the county budget board;
and
6. Perform other administrative functions delegated to the
county manager by the board of county c ommissioners or the county
budget board.
SECTION 2. AMENDATORY 19 O.S. 2021, Section 1407, is
amended to read as follows:
Section 1407. A county budget board is created in each county
which elects to come under the provisions of this act the County
Budget Act. The board shall consist of each elected county officer.
If the county has a county manager, as provided for in Section 1 of
this act, the county manager shall serve as an ex officio member of
the county budget board. The chairman chair of the board of county
commissioners shall serve as chairman chair of the county budget
board. The county clerk shall serve as secretary of the county
budget board. The chairman chair shall have all the rights and
privileges as of any other member of the board, including the right
to vote on questions. Each member of the board shall be entitled to
cast one vote. The members shall elect a vice-chairman vice chair
from among them and develop such other rules or procedures as may be
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necessary to ensure the orderly conduct of business. The vice-
chairman vice chair shall serve as chairman chair during the absence
or vacancy of the chairman chair. When a vacancy occu rs in the
office of any county officer serving as a member of the board, such
position on the board shall be considered vacant until the county
office is filled in the manner provided by law. Regular meetings of
the board shall be set by the board. Speci al meetings shall be held
at the call of the chairman chair or any two (2) members of the
board. A majority of all the members of the board then in office
shall constitute a quorum and have the power to transact business.
Any official action of the board in adopting or revising the county
budget or any portion thereof shall be effective upon the approving
vote of a majority of all the board members then in office.
SECTION 3. This act shall become effective November 1, 2025.
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