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HB1545 • 2026

County fairs; County Fair Modernization Act; Board of Directors; attendance requirement; recommended training course; effective date.

County fairs; County Fair Modernization Act; Board of Directors; attendance requirement; recommended training course; effective date.

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Sponsor
Patzkowsky
Last action
2025-02-10
Official status
Referred to Rules
Effective date
Not listed

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County fairs; County Fair Modernization Act; Board of Directors; attendance requirement; recommended training course; effective date.

County fairs; County Fair Modernization Act; Board of Directors; attendance requirement; recommended training course; effective date.

What This Bill Does

  • County fairs; County Fair Modernization Act; Board of Directors; attendance requirement; recommended training course; effective date.

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Bill History

  1. 2025-02-10 House

    Withdrawn from County and Municipal Government Committee

  2. 2025-02-10 House

    Withdrawn from Government Oversight Committee

  3. 2025-02-10 House

    Referred to Rules

  4. 2025-02-04 House

    Second Reading referred to Government Oversight

  5. 2025-02-04 House

    Referred to County and Municipal Government

  6. 2025-02-03 House

    First Reading

  7. 2025-02-03 House

    Authored by Representative Patzkowsky

Official Summary Text

County fairs; County Fair Modernization Act; Board of Directors; attendance requirement; recommended training course; effective date.

Current Bill Text

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STATE OF OKLAHOMA

1st Session of the 60th Legislature (2025)

HOUSE BILL 1545 By: Patzkowsky

AS INTRODUCED

An Act relating to county fairs; creating the County
Fair Modernization Act; requiring members of the
County Free Fair Association Board of Directors must
meet attendance requirement; clarifying that members
who do not meet attendance requirement will cease to
hold office; permitting members to take recommended
training course; providing for noncodification;
providing for codification; and providing an
effective date.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. NEW LAW A new section of law not to be
codified in the Oklahoma Statutes reads as follows:
This act shall be known and may be cited as the "County Fair
Modernization Act".
SECTION 2. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 15-97 of Title 2, unless there
is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
Whenever a member of the County Free Fair Association Board of
Directors is absent from more than fifty percent (50%) of all
meetings of the Board, regular and special, held within any period

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of four consecutive meetings, that member shall thereupon cease to
hold office, and that position shall be considered vacant.
SECTION 3. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 15-98 of Title 2, unless there
is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
Members of the County Free Fair Association Board may take a
recommended training course offered by Oklahoma State University's
extension office, delivered online, to better serve in their elected
position.
SECTION 4. This act shall become effective November 1, 2025.

60-1-10275 MJ 01/14/25