An act relating to removal, the official text

1                            STATE OF OKLAHOMA

2   2nd Session of the 60th Legislature (2026)

3 HOUSE BILL 3206                 By: Humphrey

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6                            AS INTRODUCED

7   An Act relating to removal; providing for removal of

    members of the Council on Judicial Complaints for

8   failure to properly discipline any person occupying

    positions subject to the jurisdiction of the Court on

9   the Judiciary; requiring the Attorney General to

    investigate; directing the Attorney General to

10  initial proceedings for complaints with reasonable

    cause before the Supreme Court; providing procedures

11  for proceedings; providing for codification; and

    providing an effective date.

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14 BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:

15  SECTION 1.      NEW LAW  A new section of law to be codified

16 in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 91A of Title 51, unless there is

17 created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:

18  A. Members of the Council on Judicial Complaints shall, in

19 addition to the methods now and causes provided by law, be removed

20 from office when reasonably sufficient evidence exists that the

21 Council members failed to properly discipline any person occupying

22 positions subject to the jurisdiction of the Court on the Judiciary

23 who is reasonably believed to have committed substantial ethical

24 violations or violated a criminal law classified as a felony.

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1   B. It shall be the duty of the Attorney General to investigate

2 any complaint of a violation of subsection A of this section. If on

3 such investigation the Attorney General shall find that there is

4 reasonable cause for such complaint, the Attorney General shall

5 institute proceedings in the Supreme Court to oust such members from

6 the Council on Judicial Complaints.

7   C. The procedures for removal of members of the Council on

8 Judicial Complaints shall be the same as provided in Sections 95

9 through 105 of Title 51 of the Oklahoma Statutes.

10  SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2026.

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