2022 Oklahoma Statutes
Title 74. State Government
§74-3921. Termination of advisory bodies.
A. 1. Any joint resolution or bill enacted after February 1, 1993, creating or establishing advisory bodies including, but not limited to, task forces, boards, commissions, and councils, which creation or establishment is not codified in the Oklahoma Statutes, shall terminate the first day of the first regular session of the next Oklahoma Legislature unless the joint resolution or bill specifies an earlier or later termination date.
2. Any advisory bodies created by bill or joint resolution prior to February 1, 1993, which creation or establishment is not codified in the Oklahoma Statutes, shall be terminated unless the advisory body is codified in the next decennial compilation of Oklahoma laws.
B. 1. Effective January 1, 1994, except as otherwise provided by this subsection, advisory bodies including, but not limited to, task forces, boards, commissions and councils created or established by simple resolutions or concurrent resolutions passed by the Legislature or either house thereof shall terminate the first day of the first regular session of the next Oklahoma Legislature, unless such simple or concurrent resolution specifies an earlier termination date.
2. Any such advisory body created prior to January 1, 1991, by a simple or concurrent resolution passed by the Legislature or either house thereof is hereby terminated.
C. If a task force or similar advisory body created pursuant to a codified section of law does not conduct at least one meeting or issue its final report within three (3) years from the date upon which the section of law creating the task force or similar advisory body becomes effective, the task force or advisory body shall cease to have any authority to conduct any business and shall be considered terminated by operation of law at the expiration of the three-year period.
Added by Laws 1992, c. 310, § 16, eff. July 1, 1992. Amended by Laws 1993, c. 155, § 3, eff. July 1, 1993; Laws 1999, c. 59, § 1, eff. July 1, 1999. Renumbered from § 11b of Title 75 by Laws 1999, c. 59, § 23, eff. July 1, 1999. Amended by Laws 2010, c. 169, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2010.
