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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES - FLOOR VERSION
STATE OF OKLAHOMA
1st Session of the 60th Legislature (2025)
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
FOR
HOUSE BILL NO. 1621 By: Hall and Tedford of the
House
and
Reinhardt of the Senate
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
An Act relating to public finance; enacting the State
Department of Education Spending Transparency Act;
defining terms; requiring Internet-based portal;
prescribing required content related to expenditures
by state government; imposing duties on governmental
entities; authorizing the Office of Management and
Enterprise Services to include certain information;
providing for annual agreements; prohibiting release
of confidential information; requiring standards for
reporting; providing for administrative rules;
prescribing requirements for website displays;
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 to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 8201 of Title 62, unless there
is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
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This act shall be known and may be cited as the "State
Department of Education Spending Transparency Act".
SECTION 2. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 8202 of Title 62, unless there
is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
This act will empower taxpayers with better information about
how their state spends taxpayer funds. The purpose of this act is
to ensure that the public can act on information about where
education taxpayer funds are spent in order to ensure that
government is as efficient and effective as possible.
SECTION 3. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 8203 of Title 62, unless there
is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
As used in this act, "Submitting Party" means the State
Department of Education.
SECTION 4. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 8204 of Title 62, unless there
is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
No later than the effective date of this act, the Office of
Management and Enterprise Services shall utilize an existing
Internet-based portal freely available to the public which details
information about expenditures made by the Submitting Party in each
fiscal year that commences after the effective date of this section.
The features of the database shall include at least:
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1. A detailed ledger of all expenditures made in a fiscal year
by the Submitting Party, including, for each:
a. the amount of the expenditure,
b. the date the expenditure was paid,
c. the name of the individual or entity to which the
expenditure was paid, and
d. if the expenditure is a payment to an employee, the
employee's job title or other information that
identifies their role within the organization.
2. The ability to search or browse all individual expenditures
in each fiscal year;
3. The ability to aggregate data and where appropriate, through
interactive software, generate totals, averages, and other summary
statistics broken down by year, Submitting Party, spending
categories described in paragraph 1 of this section and other
criteria that may be useful to the public;
4. The ability to easily download all or a subset of
expenditure data in a format that is widely usable and useful to
members of the public; and
5. The ability to browse and search anonymized annual salary
and benefit information for all employees of the Submitting Party.
SECTION 5. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 8205 of Title 62, unless there
is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
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A. The Submitting Party shall assist in the development,
establishment, operation, storage, hosting, and support of the
database. The Submitting Party shall submit data to the Office of
Management and Enterprise Services in a manner and on a schedule
prescribed by the Office of Management and Enterprise Services.
B. Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit the
Office of Management and Enterprise Services from including any
information in the database that is not required to be included
under this section and that is available to the public.
C. The Office of Management and Enterprise Services shall enter
into an annual agreement with other appropriate agencies to define
data storage, privacy and security, data handling, user interface
requirements, and other provisions considered necessary to ensure
the proper maintenance and operation of the database.
D. The Office of Management and Enterprise Services shall
ensure that the database does not include any confidential
information, information that is not eligible for release under the
Oklahoma Open Records Act, or the names, Social Security numbers, or
any other personally identifiable information about employees of
Submitting Parties or other individuals.
E. The Office of Management and Enterprise Services shall, on
an ongoing basis, develop standardized reporting procedures and
methodologies and may develop secure application programming
interfaces so that data can be reported with minimal administrative
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burden on the Office of Management and Enterprise Services, the
Submitting Party, and others.
SECTION 6. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 8206 of Title 62, unless there
is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
The Office of Management and Enterprise Services shall
promulgate all necessary rules for the administration of this act
within the time prescribed for permanent rule adoption as provided
by law.
SECTION 7. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 8207 of Title 62, unless there
is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
The database shall be hosted and featured prominently on a
website owned or controlled by the Office of Management and
Enterprise Services for purposes of allowing the display of
information required by this act. The Submitting Party shall
display on its website a prominent Internet link to a page within
the database that displays a summary of the expenditures from the
Submitting Party in the most recent fiscal year.
SECTION 8. This act shall become effective November 1, 2025.
COMMITTEE REPORT BY: COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OVERSIGHT, dated
03/10/2025 - DO PASS, As Amended and Coauthored.