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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 25 By: Woods
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6 AS INTRODUCED
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7 An Act relating to the funding of transportation
7 projects; amending 69 O.S. 2021, Section 1913, as
8 amended by Section 1, Chapter 17, 1st Extraordinary
8 Session, O.S.L. 2023 (69 O.S. Supp. 2024, Section
9 1913), which relates to the Rural Economic
9 Transportation Reliability and Optimization Fund;
10 updating statutory language; updating statutory
10 reference; modifying population limitation; directing
11 deposit of certain monies in Rural Economic
11 Transportation Reliability and Optimization Fund;
12 providing for noncodification; providing an effective
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15 BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
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16 SECTION 1. AMENDATORY 69 O.S. 2021, Section 1913, as
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17 amended by Section 1, Chapter 17, 1st Extraordinary Session, O.S.L.
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18 2023 (69 O.S. Supp. 2024, Section 1913), is amended to read as
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20 Section 1913. There is hereby established a fund within the
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21 State Treasury to be known as the "Rural Economic Transportation
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22 Reliability and Optimization Fund" to be administered by the
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23 Oklahoma Department of Transportation. The fund shall be a
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24 continuing fund, not subject to fiscal year limitations, and shall
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1 consist of any general revenues as may be directly appropriated or
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2 otherwise provided by law.
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3 Any monies appropriated to the Rural Economic Transportation
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4 Reliability and Optimization Fund shall not result in a decrease in
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5 historic and traditional total state transportation funding levels
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6 or be used to supplant or replace existing state funds used for
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7 transportation purposes.
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8 In order to ensure that the funds from the Rural Economic
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9 Transportation Reliability and Optimization Fund are used to enhance
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10 and not supplant state funding for the Department of Transportation,
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11 the State Board of Equalization shall examine and investigate the
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12 funding levels as described. At the meeting of the State Board of
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13 Equalization held within five (5) days after the monthly
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14 apportionment in February of each year, the State Board of
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15 Equalization shall issue a finding and report which shall state
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16 whether expenditures from the Rural Economic Transportation
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17 Reliability and Optimization Fund were used to enhance or supplant
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18 state funding for the Department of Transportation. If the State
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19 Board of Equalization finds that state funding for the Department of
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20 Transportation was supplanted by funds from the Rural Economic
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21 Transportation Reliability and Optimization Fund, the Board shall
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22 specify the amount by which such funding was supplanted. In this
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23 event, the Legislature shall not make any appropriations for the
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1 ensuing fiscal year until an appropriation in that amount is made to
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2 replenish state funding for the Department of Transportation.
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3 All monies accruing to the credit of the Rural Economic
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4 Transportation Reliability and Optimization Fund are hereby
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5 appropriated and shall be used to assist the Department in the
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6 equitable prioritization of construction, repair, and maintenance of
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7 state highways in rural areas where robust economic development has
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8 resulted in traffic safety and circulation difficulties attributed
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9 to significant and unanticipated increases in traffic volumes and as
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10 fully recorded and documented by the Department. "Robust economic
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11 development", as used in this act section, shall mean those
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12 conditions of the highways of this state in counties with a
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13 population of less than seventy-five thousand (75,000) fifty
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14 thousand (50,000) where traffic volumes have increased to become so
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15 impaired or hazardous as to constitute a threat to the safety of
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16 persons or property traveling over or upon such highways.
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17 When such traffic conditions as described may arise in rural
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18 areas, the Department of Transportation shall engage the Oklahoma
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19 Department of Commerce, the Oklahoma Tax Commission, or other
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20 agencies or entities of the state, as necessary, to confirm the
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21 relationship of traffic conditions to robust economic development.
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22 Once said such relationship is confirmed and documented, the
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23 Department of Transportation may utilize any proceeds from the Rural
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24 Economic Transportation Reliability and Optimization Fund in an
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1 amount not to exceed fifty percent (50%) of the total project costs
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2 to incentivize and leverage the acceleration and prioritization of
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3 improvement projects existing in or to be incorporated into the
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4 Department's Eight-Year Construction Work Plan.
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5 SECTION 2. NEW LAW A new section of law not to be
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6 codified in the Oklahoma Statutes reads as follows:
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7 There is hereby appropriated to the Rural Economic
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8 Transportation Reliability and Optimization Fund created pursuant to
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9 Section 1913 of Title 69 of the Oklahoma Statutes from any monies
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10 not otherwise appropriated from the General Revenue Fund of the
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11 State Treasury for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2026, the sum of
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12 Two Hundred Million Dollars ($200,000,000.00) to be utilized in
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13 accordance with law.
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14 SECTION 3. This act shall become effective July 1, 2025.
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15 SECTION 4. It being immediately necessary for the preservation
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16 of the public peace, health or safety, an emergency is hereby
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17 declared to exist, by reason whereof this act shall take effect and
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18 be in full force from and after its passage and approval.
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