2023 Oklahoma Statutes
Title 47. Motor Vehicles
§47-2-146. Department of Public Safety Patrol Academy Revolving Fund.

A. There is hereby created in the State Treasury a revolving fund for the Department of Public Safety, to be designated the "Department of Public Safety Patrol Academy Revolving Fund". The fund shall be a continuing fund, not subject to fiscal year limitations. All monies accruing to the credit of said fund are hereby appropriated and shall be budgeted and expended by the Department of Public Safety for the exclusive purpose of Oklahoma Highway Patrol Trooper Academies. Expenditures from said fund shall be made upon warrants issued by the State Treasurer against claims filed as prescribed by law with the Director of the Office of Management and Enterprise Services for approval and payment.

B. On or before December 1 of each year, the Department of Public Safety shall provide a written report on all Oklahoma Highway Patrol Trooper Academies conducted in the then current and preceding state fiscal year to the Speaker of the Oklahoma House of Representatives, the President Pro Tempore of the Oklahoma State Senate, the Chair of the Appropriations and Budget Committee of the Oklahoma House of Representatives, and the Chair of the Appropriations Committee of the Oklahoma State Senate. Such report shall include, but not be limited to, the following information for the then current and preceding state fiscal year:

1. A description of all expenditures from the Department of Public Safety Patrol Academy Revolving Fund;

2. A description of the source of all monies accruing to the credit of the Department of Public Safety Patrol Academy Revolving Fund;

3. A description of all expenditures, including the source of funds for said expenditures, used to conduct each academy;

4. The total number of applicants for each academy;

5. The total number of persons admitted for each academy;

6. The total number of persons graduating from each academy;

7. The total number of persons graduating from each academy that do not accept a position within the Oklahoma Highway Patrol;

8. The total number of persons graduating from each academy that, upon accepting a position within the Oklahoma Highway Patrol, do not complete service of an initial probationary period as determined by the Department of Public Safety;

9. The net number of troopers added to the Oklahoma Highway Patrol in a calendar year;

10. A description of any academies planned to be conducted in the upcoming state fiscal year; and

11. A description of any planned academy or academies to be conducted within the remaining fiscal year that includes, but is not limited to, the estimated cost of the academy and the proposed source or sources of funding.

Added by Laws 2011, c. 308, § 2, eff. July 1, 2011. Amended by Laws 2012, c. 304, § 170; Laws 2022, c. 370, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2022.