1 STATE OF OKLAHOMA
2 1st Session of the 58th Legislature (2021)
3 HOUSE BILL 2704 By: Bell
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6 AS INTRODUCED
7 An Act relating to schools; requiring educational
institutions to provide notary for absentee ballots;
8 providing for codification; and providing an
effective date.
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11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
12 SECTION 1. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
13 in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 3249 of Title 70, unless there
14 is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
15 All state educational institutions within the Oklahoma State
16 System of Higher Education shall make at least one full-time staff
17 member available to notarize ballots during designated absentee
18 voting periods. The employee must be available during normal
19 business hours and their availability to notarize ballots shall be
20 widely advertised to the campus community no less than ten (10) days
21 before the absentee voting period.
22 SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2021.
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24 58-1-6424 LRB 01/19/21
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