DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY

2022 Okla. Sess. Law Serv. Ch. 369 (H.B. 4470) (WEST)

2022 Okla. Sess. Law Serv. Ch. 369 (H.B. 4470) (WEST)
OKLAHOMA 2022 SESSION LAW SERVICE
Fifty-Eighth Legislature, 2022 Second Regular Session
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CHAPTER 369
H.B. No. 4470
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY
An Act relating to the Department of Public Safety; requiring that certain funds be utilized for certain purposes; providing budgeting and expenditure limitations and procedures; providing for lapse of funds under certain conditions; and requiring and prohibiting certain budget procedures.
SUBJECT: Department of Public Safety
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. From the funds appropriated to the Department of Public Safety in Enrolled Senate Bill No. 1040 of the 2nd Session of the 58th Oklahoma Legislature, the Department of Public Safety is hereby authorized to expend Fourteen Million Two Hundred Thirty-one Thousand Dollars ($14,231,000.00) to provide a pay increase to commissioned law enforcement officers of the Oklahoma Highway Patrol.
SECTION 2. From the funds appropriated to the Department of Public Safety in Enrolled Senate Bill No. 1040 of the 2nd Session of the 58th Oklahoma Legislature, the Department of Public Safety is hereby authorized to expend Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($500,000.00) to provide a pay increase to persons serving as Communications Dispatchers for the Department of Public Safety.
SECTION 3. From the funds appropriated to the Department of Public Safety in Enrolled Senate Bill No. 1040 of the 2nd Session of the 58th Oklahoma Legislature, the Department of Public Safety is hereby authorized to expend One Hundred Sixty-four Thousand Dollars ($164,000.00) to provide a pay increase to persons providing security services at the Oklahoma Capitol building.
SECTION 4. From the funds appropriated to the Department of Public Safety in Enrolled Senate Bill No. 1040 of the 2nd Session of the 58th Oklahoma Legislature, the Department of Public Safety is hereby authorized to expend One Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars ($150,000.00) to create and maintain the Mental Wellness Division as described in Enrolled Senate Bill No. 1613 of the 2nd Session of the 58th Oklahoma Legislature.
SECTION 5. Appropriations made by this act, not including appropriations made for capital outlay purposes, may be budgeted for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2023 (hereafter FY–23) or may be budgeted for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024 (hereafter FY–24). Funds budgeted for FY–23 may be encumbered only through June 30, 2023, and must by expended by November 15, 2023. Any funds remaining after November 15, 2023, and not budgeted for FY–24, shall lapse to the credit of the proper fund for the then current fiscal year. Funds budgeted for FY–24 may be encumbered only through June 30, 2024. Any funds remaining after November 15, 2024, shall lapse to the credit of the proper fund for the then current fiscal year. These appropriations may not be budgeted in both fiscal years simultaneously. Funds budgeted in FY–23, and not required to pay obligations for that fiscal year, may be budgeted for FY–24, after the agency to which the funds have been appropriated has prepared and submitted a budget work program revision removing these funds from the FY–23 budget work program and after such revision has been approved by the Office of Management and Enterprise Services.
Approved May 26, 2022.
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