Oklahoma § 74-30.7 - Oklahoma Opioid Abatement Board

§ 74-30.7. Oklahoma Opioid Abatement Board

A. There is hereby created the Oklahoma Opioid Abatement Board

which shall consist of the following nine (9) members:

1. One member appointed by the Governor;

2. One member appointed by the State Auditor and Inspector;

3. One member appointed by the State Treasurer;

4. The Attorney General of the State of Oklahoma, or his or her

designee, who shall serve as an ex officio member of the Board but

who shall be entitled to vote only in case of a tie vote;

5. One member appointed by the State Superintendent of Public

Instruction;

6. Two members appointed by the Speaker of the House of

Representatives; and

7. Two members appointed by the President Pro Tempore of the

Senate.

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 74. State Government

B. Each member shall serve at the pleasure of his or her

appointing authority and may be removed or replaced without cause.

Any member of the Board shall be prohibited from voting on any issue

in which the member has a direct or indirect financial interest.

C. The Board shall have the following powers and duties:

1. Develop and implement procedures for the disbursement of

opioid grant awards to eligible participants, to be used by eligible

participants to fund and reimburse costs related to approved

purposes. The Board may elect to disburse opioid grant awards to

eligible participants in multiple allocations;

2. Develop and implement opioid grant application, submission

and evaluation procedures as required to implement the provisions of

this act;

3. Develop and implement an appeals process for eligible

participants to contest opioid grant application denials and denials

of specific fund use requests contained in submitted applications;

4. Maintain oversight over the expenditure of opioid grant

awards to ensure grant proceeds are used exclusively for approved

purposes; and

5. Suspend allocations of opioid grant awards to eligible

participants found by the Board to be out of compliance with Board

procedures or to have utilized such awards for nonapproved purposes;

provided that the Board shall resume such allocations once the Board

has determined the eligible participant has adequately remedied the

cause of such suspension.

D. No opioid grant awarded pursuant to the provisions of this

act shall be utilized or expended by a political subdivision, unless

such utilization or expenditure is memorialized in a resolution or

equivalent government action adopted by the political subdivision

and submitted to the Board.

E. No opioid grant awarded pursuant to the provisions of this

act shall include funds from the Purdue Political Subdivisions Fund

unless the Board shall have first received a release of claims as

required by the Purdue Settlement Agreement on a form approved by

the Attorney General.

F. The Office of the Attorney General shall provide staff and

administrative support to the Oklahoma Opioid Abatement Board.

G. The Office of the Attorney General shall promulgate rules

necessary to implement the provisions of this act; provided that the

Office of the Attorney General shall only promulgate such rules as

requested or approved by the Board.

Added by Laws 2020, c. 130, § 5.