Oklahoma § 40-600.1 - Short title – Legislative findings

§ 40-600.1. Short title – Legislative findings

A. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Oklahoma

Professional Employer Organization Recognition and Registration

Act".

B. The Legislature hereby finds:

1. That professional employer organizations provide a valuable

service to commerce and the citizens of this state by increasing the

opportunities of employers to develop cost-effective methods of

satisfying their personnel requirements and providing employees with

access to certain employment benefits which might otherwise not be

available to them;

2. That professional employer organizations operating in this

state should be properly recognized and regulated by the Department

of Insurance of this state, as provided in this act; and

3. That any allocation of the employer’s duties and

responsibilities pursuant to this act will preserve all rights to

which their covered employees would be entitled under a traditional

employment relationship.

Added by Laws 2002, c. 64, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2002.