Oklahoma § 74-3921 - Termination of advisory bodies

§ 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.