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1 STATE OF OKLAHOMA
2 1st Session of the 60th Legislature (2025)
3 HOUSE BILL 1542 By: Patzkowsky
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6 AS INTRODUCED
7 An Act relating to agriculture; amending 2 O.S. 2021,
Sections 14-2 and 14-3, which relates to weights and
8 measures; removing the requirement to send references
standards to the National Institute of Standards and
9 Technology (NIST); providing that standards may be
sent to a qualified laboratory; removing the
10 requirement to have weights and standards certified
by the National Institute of Standards and Technology
11 (NIST); providing that a qualified laboratory may
certify weights and standards; and providing an
12 effective date.
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15 BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
16 SECTION 1. AMENDATORY 2 O.S. 2021, Section 14-2, is
17 amended to read as follows:
18 Section 14-2. The Director of the Bureau of Standards shall
19 have charge of the various standards of weights, measures, and
20 testing devices received by this state from the United States
21 pursuant to Resolutions of Congress approved June 14, 1836, and July
22 27, 1866, and any future standards which may be received from the
23 United States. The Director shall have charge of the various state
24 or office standards purchased by this state for the Bureau.
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1 The Director shall have charge and control of the standard
2 methods of weighing, measuring, and testing in this state. The
3 Director shall maintain the standards in good order and shall submit
4 a set of standards called the reference standards to the National
5 Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) a qualified laboratory
6 for certification.
7 SECTION 2. AMENDATORY 2 O.S. 2021, Section 14-3, is
8 amended to read as follows:
9 Section 14-3. The weights, measures, and testing devices
10 received from the United States pursuant to Joint Resolutions of
11 Congress approved June 14, 1836, and July 27, 1866, now in the care
12 and custody of the State Bureau of Standards, and the weights and
13 measures in conformity with the Resolutions, when certified by the
14 National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) a qualified
15 laboratory, shall be the state standards of weights and measures.
16 Copies of the state standards of weights and measures and other
17 weights, measures, and apparatus shall be supplied by this state to
18 implement the provisions of this article.
19 SECTION 3. This act shall become effective November 1, 2025.
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21 60-1-11230 JL 01/01/25
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