Oklahoma § 40-904 - Powers, duties, and responsibilities

§ 40-904. Powers, duties, and responsibilities

The Oklahoma Workforce Commission shall have the following

powers, duties, and responsibilities:

1. To administer the provisions of the Oklahoma Workforce

Transformation Act or any duty as directed by statute;

2. To establish an office for the Commission within this state;

3. To elect whatever other officers may be necessary to direct

operations of the Commission;

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4. To employ or contract for personnel and administrative

support as the Commission deems appropriate to carry out the purpose

and provisions of the Oklahoma Workforce Transformation Act,

including, but not limited to, a nonprofit corporation to carry out

the Commission’s objectives, an executive director or other chief

executive officer, and any other employees or contractors the

Commission deems appropriate, and to prescribe their duties and fix

their compensation;

5. To administer the Workforce Coordination Revolving Fund

created in Section 255.4 of Title 62 of the Oklahoma Statutes;

6. To administer the Oklahoma Workforce Commission Revolving

Fund created in Section 3 of this act;

7. To approve or disapprove the budget of the Commission;

8. To promulgate rules to carry out the provisions of the

Oklahoma Workforce Transformation Act;

9. To enter into contracts or agreements for studies,

professional services, grant administration and procurement,

research projects, supplies, or any other services the Commission

deems necessary to carry out its purpose, and to incur those

expenses necessary to carry out those purposes;

10. To cooperate with any private, local, state, or national

commission, organization, agency, or group and to make contracts and

agreements for joint programs beneficial to Oklahoma’s workforce

development efforts;

11. To accept donations, grants, contributions, and gifts from

any public or private source and deposit such in the Oklahoma

Workforce Commission Revolving Fund, created in Section 3 of this

act;

12. To oversee and direct to the extent permitted by law the

activities and administration of the Governor’s Council for

Workforce and Economic Development, including, but not limited to,

the creation and submission of state plans to the federal government

pursuant to the provisions of the Workforce Innovation and

Opportunity Act;

13. To collect data from federal, state, and local agencies,

departments, educational institutions, boards, commissions, or any

other entities including, but not limited to:

a.

number of participants in workforce development

programming,

b.

cost per participant,

c.

wages before and after participation in programs,

d.

degree or certificate conferred on each participant,

e.

number of jobs open needing degrees or certificates,

f.

labor force and economic information, and

g.

any other information the Commission deems appropriate

to guide funding decisions, facilitate its work or the

work of workforce development entities in the state,

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or to understand the impact of the state’s workforce

efforts and programming;

14. To create and maintain a public dashboard and create

reports with data concerning workforce development efforts in the

state. All state and local agencies, departments, educational

institutions, boards, commissions, and other public entities shall

cooperate with information and data requests from the Commission or

its designees. The Oklahoma Workforce Commission shall serve as the

centralized data and information repository for workforce

development activities for the state;

15. To make recommendations to the Legislature to improve

workforce development programs in the state;

16. To implement programs designed to expand workforce

development; and

17. To work with, use and provide data the legislatively

created map developed to help make decisions on economic development

and workforce needs in the state.

Added by Laws 2023, c. 361, § 5. Amended by Laws 2025, c. 408, § 1.