1 STATE OF OKLAHOMA
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2 2nd Session of the 59th Legislature (2024)
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3 SENATE BILL 1488 By: Floyd
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5 AS INTRODUCED
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6 An Act relating to the Ethics Commission; creating
6 the Ethics Commission Electronic Filing System
7 Replacement Fund; making an appropriation;
7 identifying source; establishing amount; providing
8 purpose; providing for codification; and declaring an
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11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
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12 SECTION 1. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
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13 in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 4258.3 of Title 74, unless there
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14 is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
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15 There is hereby created in the State Treasury a revolving fund
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16 for the Ethics Commission to be designated the “Ethics Commission
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17 Electronic Filing System Replacement Fund”. The fund shall be a
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18 continuing fund, not subject to fiscal year limitations, and shall
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19 consist of all monies received by the Ethics Commission from
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20 legislative appropriations provided for the purpose of replacing the
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21 Ethics Commission’s electronic filing system. All monies accruing
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22 to the credit of the fund are hereby appropriated and may be
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23 budgeted and expended by the Ethics Commission for the purpose
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24 provided for in this section. Expenditures from the fund shall be
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 1 made upon warrants issued by the State Treasurer against claims
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2 filed as prescribed by law with the Director of the Office of
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3 Management and Enterprise Services for approval and payment.
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4 SECTION 2. There is hereby appropriated to the Ethics
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5 Commission from any monies not otherwise appropriated from the
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6 General Revenue Fund of the State Treasury for the fiscal year
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7 ending June 30, 2023, the sum of Two Million Four Hundred Thousand
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8 Dollars ($2,400,000.00) to transfer to the Ethics Commission
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9 Electronic Filing System Replacement Fund created pursuant to
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10 Section 1 of this act.
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11 SECTION 3. It being immediately necessary for the preservation
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12 of the public peace, health or safety, an emergency is hereby
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13 declared to exist, by reason whereof this act shall take effect and
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14 be in full force from and after its passage and approval.
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