EMERGENCY ENERGY AVAILABILITY PLANS
2022 Okla. Sess. Law Serv. Ch. 131 (S.B. 1410) (WEST)
2022 Okla. Sess. Law Serv. Ch. 131 (S.B. 1410) (WEST)
OKLAHOMA 2022 SESSION LAW SERVICE
Fifty-Eighth Legislature, 2022 Second Regular Session
CHAPTER 131
S.B. No. 1410
EMERGENCY ENERGY AVAILABILITY PLANS
An Act relating to energy; creating the Oklahoma Emergency Energy Availability Act of 2022; providing short title; defining terms; directing certain entities to develop certain energy plans; requiring certain entities to include a certain number of energy sources in an energy policy or emergency energy plan; directing the Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management to promulgate rules for certain provisions; providing for codification; and providing an effective date.
SUBJECT: Emergency energy availability plans
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 9060 of Title 74, unless there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
<< OK ST T. 74 § 9060 >>
A. This act shall be known and may be cited as the “Oklahoma Emergency Energy Availability Act of 2022”.
B. As used in the Oklahoma Emergency Energy Availability Act of 2022:
1. “Energy policy” means any policy or commitment pertaining to the sourcing of electrical power generation, energy conservation methods, or energy development; and
2. “Energy source” means any source used to generate electric power including but not limited to biomass, coal, hydroelectricity, natural gas, hydrogen, nuclear, oil, solar, water, and wind.
C. 1. On or after the effective date of this act, any agency, department, bureau, system of higher education, school district, township, or municipality within this state which has an energy policy in place or that chooses to develop an energy policy shall develop an emergency energy plan detailing methods or sources of energy during a state of emergency.
2. On or after the effective date of this act, any agency, department, bureau, system of higher education, school district, township, or municipality within this state which has or develops an energy policy and an emergency energy plan pursuant to paragraph 1 of this subsection shall not source energy for such plans from a single energy source and shall develop policies for the acquisition of electrical power generated from at least three distinct energy sources.
D. The Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management shall promulgate rules to effectuate the provisions of this section.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2022.
Approved April 29, 2022.
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