PUBLIC FINANCE
OKLAHOMA 2024 SESSION LAW SERVICE Fifty-Ninth Legislature, 2024 Second Regular Session
2024 Okla. Sess. Law Serv. Ch. 113 (H.B. 3113) (WEST)
OKLAHOMA 2024 SESSION LAW SERVICE
Fifty-Ninth Legislature, 2024 Second Regular Session
CHAPTER 113
H.B. No. 3113
PUBLIC FINANCE
An Act relating to public finance; amending 62 O.S. 2021, Section 34.42, which relates to budget work programs; requiring executive officer to certify agency compliance with certain requirements; and providing an effective date.
SUBJECT: Public finance
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
<< OK ST T. 62 § 34.42 >>
SECTION 1. AMENDATORY 62 O.S. 2021, Section 34.42, is amended to read as follows:
Section 34.42 A. On or before the first day of June in each year, or as soon thereafter as possible, all agencies shall file agency budgets with the Director of the Office of Management and Enterprise Services. Copies of all agency budgets shall also be made available electronically to the staff of the Joint Legislative Committee on Budget and Program Oversight.
B. The required instructions, content and format of agency budgets shall be developed by the staff of the Budget Division of the Office of Management and Enterprise Services.
C. 1. The agency budget shall include a description of all funds available to the agency for expenditure and set out allotments requested by the agency by quarter and the entire fiscal year.
2. The agency budget shall be accompanied by an organizational chart of the agency, a statement of agency mission and program objectives.
3. The agency budget shall delineate agency spending by such categories and with at least as much detail as is specified in the legislative appropriation and as prescribed by the Director of the Office of Management and Enterprise Services.
4. Agency budgets shall be signed by the executive officer of each agency.
5. The executive officer shall certify that the agency is in complete compliance with the requirements of Section 34.11.3 of this title and Section 3–114 of Title 65 of the Oklahoma Statutes.
D. A “request officer” shall be designated by each state agency for the purpose of making program and allotment requests.
E. Executive officers of agencies shall cooperate with the Office of Management and Enterprise Services staff and Joint Committee staff in developing program budgeting categories.
F. All funds available or expected to be made available to any agency, including nonfiscal appropriations, shall not be available for expenditure until the request officer of the agency has complied with the applicable provisions of the Oklahoma State Finance Act and has received approval of such request for funds from the Director of the Office of Management and Enterprise Services.
G. The provisions of this section shall not apply to CompSource Oklahoma if CompSource Oklahoma is operating pursuant to a pilot program authorized by Sections 3316 and 3317 of Title 74 of the Oklahoma Statutes.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2024.
Approved April 23, 2024.
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