An act relating to aerospace, aircraft, and aviation 7 infrastructure, the official text

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

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3 SENATE BILL 1259           By: Stewart

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6                            AS INTRODUCED

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7   An Act relating to aerospace, aircraft, and aviation

7   infrastructure; defining term; requiring certain

8   airports grant certain benefit to certain veterans;

8   providing for codification; providing an effective

9   date; and declaring an emergency.

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1 2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:

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

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1 4 in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 65.23 of Title 3, unless there

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1 5 is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:

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16  A. As used in this section, "public airport" means an airport

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1 7 open to use by all persons without prior permission of the airport

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1 8 lessee or operator, and without restrictions within the physical

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1 9 capacities of its available facilities.

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20  B. A public airport that owns, operates, or leases parking

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2 1 facilities shall grant free parking to a vehicle owned and occupied

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2 2 as either a driver or passenger by a veteran who has been honorably

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2 3 discharged from active service in any branch of the Armed Forces of

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2 4 the United States or the Oklahoma National Guard and who has been

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1 certified by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs or the

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2 Armed Forces of the United States as having a disability of one

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3 hundred percent (100%). Documentation certifying such disability

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4 shall be presented to the public airport to waive any fee associated

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5 with using such facility.

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6   SECTION 2. This act shall become effective July 1, 2026.

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7   SECTION 3. It being immediately necessary for the preservation

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8 of the public peace, health or safety, an emergency is hereby

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9 declared to exist, by reason whereof this act shall take effect and

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1 0 be in full force from and after its passage and approval.

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