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1 STATE OF OKLAHOMA
2 2nd Session of the 60th Legislature (2026)
3 HOUSE BILL 3567 By: Wolfley
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6 AS INTRODUCED
7 An Act relating to elections; defining terms;
prohibiting candidates from expending campaign funds
8 to compensate the candidate for services rendered to
candidate's own campaign; prohibiting recipients of
9 campaign funds from providing anything of value to
candidate or family members for certain services
10 rendered; requiring vendor whom a candidate pays more
than a certain amount to file an anti-kickback
11 certification; requiring candidate to maintain copy
of each certification; granting the Oklahoma Ethics
12 Commission rulemaking authority; providing penalties;
providing for codification; and providing an
13 effective date.
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16 BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
17 SECTION 1. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
18 in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 15-100 of Title 26, unless there
19 is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
20 A. As used in this act:
21 1. "Candidate" means any individual who has filed a declaration
22 of candidacy or has accepted or expended campaign funds to seek
23 nomination, election, or retention to any public office in this
24 state;
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1 2. "Family member" means the candidate's spouse, domestic
2 partner, parent, child, sibling, grandparent, grandchild, aunt,
3 uncle, niece, nephew, or any individual residing in the candidate's
4 household;
5 3. "Major retailer" means a business primarily engaged in
6 general retail sales to the public with fixed, publicly accessible
7 locations and standard pricing, including, but not limited to,
8 grocery stores, office supply stores, and hardware stores; and
9 4. "Vendor" means any individual, business entity, political
10 consulting firm, or organization that receives campaign funds in
11 exchange for goods or services.
12 B. A candidate shall not expend campaign funds to compensate
13 the candidate for services rendered to the candidate's own campaign,
14 including, but not limited to, consulting, management, strategy,
15 media, compliance, or administrative services.
16 C. No vendor, consultant, political committee, or other
17 recipient of campaign funds shall directly or indirectly pay,
18 transfer, or provide anything of value to the candidate or any
19 family member of the candidate for services rendered to:
20 1. The candidate's own campaign; or
21 2. Any other campaign for public office.
22 D. 1. Any vendor to whom a candidate pays more than Five
23 Hundred Dollars ($500.00) in aggregate during an election cycle,
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1 excluding payments to major retailers, shall execute an anti-
2 kickback certification prescribed by the Oklahoma Ethics Commission.
3 2. The certification shall affirm, under penalty of perjury,
4 that the vendor has not provided and will not provide any prohibited
5 payment or thing of value to the candidate or a family member of the
6 candidate in violation of this act.
7 3. The candidate shall maintain a copy of each certification
8 and submit such certifications with the candidate's campaign finance
9 reports as required by Ethics Commission rule.
10 E. 1. The Oklahoma Ethics Commission shall promulgate rules
11 necessary to implement and enforce this act.
12 2. A violation of this act may be punished by:
13 a. civil penalties,
14 b. restitution of unlawful expenditures,
15 c. referral for criminal prosecution as provided by law,
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17 d. any other sanction authorized by law.
18 SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2026.
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