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1 STATE OF OKLAHOMA
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2 1st Session of the 60th Legislature (2025)
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3 SENATE BILL 137 By: Hamilton
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6 AS INTRODUCED
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7 An Act relating to the Department of Corrections;
7 creating the Oklahoma State Penitentiary Prison Rodeo
8 Revolving Fund; specifying source of fund; providing
8 for purpose of fund; providing for expenditures;
9 making an appropriation; providing for codification;
9 providing an effective date; and declaring an
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13 BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
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14 SECTION 1. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
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15 in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 559.1 of Title 57, unless there
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16 is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
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17 There is hereby created in the State Treasury a revolving fund
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18 for the Department of Corrections to be designated the "Oklahoma
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19 State Penitentiary Prison Rodeo Revolving Fund". The fund shall be
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20 a continuing fund, not subject to fiscal year limitations, and shall
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21 consist of all monies received by the Department of Corrections from
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22 legislative appropriations provided for the purpose of constructing,
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23 repairing, improving, upgrading, and rehabilitating the Oklahoma
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24 State Penitentiary prison rodeo arena in order to create prison
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1 program opportunities and promote economic development. All monies
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2 accruing to the credit of the fund are hereby appropriated and may
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3 be budgeted and expended by the Department of Corrections for the
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4 purpose provided for in this section. Expenditures from the fund
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5 shall be made upon warrants issued by the State Treasurer against
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6 claims filed as prescribed by law with the Director of the Office of
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7 Management and Enterprise Services for approval and payment.
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8 SECTION 2. There is hereby appropriated to the Department of
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9 Corrections from any monies not otherwise appropriated from the
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10 General Revenue Fund of the State Treasury for the fiscal year
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11 ending June 30, 2023, the sum of Eight Million Three Hundred
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12 Thousand Dollars ($8,300,000.00) to transfer to the Oklahoma State
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13 Penitentiary Prison Rodeo Revolving Fund created pursuant to Section
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15 SECTION 3. This act shall become effective July 1, 2025.
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16 SECTION 4. It being immediately necessary for the preservation
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17 of the public peace, health or safety, an emergency is hereby
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18 declared to exist, by reason whereof this act shall take effect and
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19 be in full force from and after its passage and approval.
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