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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
2nd Session of the 60th Legislature (2026)
HOUSE BILL 2993 By: Hardin
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to rural law enforcement; creating
the Rural Law Enforcement Grant Fund Act; defining
term; directing the Office of the Attorney General to
provide certain notification to law enforcement
coordinators; requiring law enforcement coordinators
to consider and determine needs of participants;
stating population requirement for participants;
requiring law enforcement coordinators to certify
participants for the program and their need for
financial assistance; directing the Attorney General
to distribute monies via the Rural Law Enforcement
Grant Fund; providing restrictions on expenditures;
directing the Attorney General to administer grants
when funds become available; establishing procedures
for notifying and administering grant funds to rural
law enforcement agencies; stating requirements for
rural law enforcement agencies in order to receive
grant funds; directing rural law enforcement
coordinators to track the progress of recipients of
grant funds and make certain assessments; authorizing
the Attorney General and rural law enforcement
coordinators to conduct compliance audits; directing
the Attorney General to establish criteria for rating
and prioritizing applications; providing list of
criteria; creating the Rural Law Enforcement Grant
Revolving Fund; declaring fund to be continuing and
not subject to fiscal year limitations; stating
manner in which funds may be appropriated and
budgeted; creating rural law enforcement coordination
districts; providing for codification; and providing
an effective date.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
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SECTION 1. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 906 of Title 19, unless there is
created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Rural Law
Enforcement Grant Fund Act".
SECTION 2. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 906.1 of Title 19, unless there
is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A. As used in this section, "law enforcement coordinator" means
the law enforcement coordinator in each rural law enforcement
coordination district as defined in Section 5 of this act.
B. Upon the availability of law enforcement grant funds, the
Office of the Attorney General shall notify the law enforcement
coordinators of each district of such available funds.
C. Upon notification of the Office of the Attorney General
pursuant to subsection B of this section, the law enforcement
coordinators shall consider and determine the relative needs of
participants for monies in the Rural Law Enforcement Grant Fund.
Participants shall include municipalities with a population of ten
thousand (10,000) people or less according to the latest Federal
Decennial Census. Based upon the information available, the law
enforcement coordinator for each district shall certify to the
Office of the Attorney General the names of the municipalities which
the law enforcement coordinator determines need financial assistance
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and the amount required by each in accordance with the provisions of
this section.
D. On or before the last day of August of each year, the Office
of the Attorney General shall distribute the monies in the Rural Law
Enforcement Grant Fund in the manner provided by law.
E. Any amount so distributed from the Rural Law Enforcement
Grant Fund to eligible participants shall be expended only for
purchases, construction projects, maintenance costs, repairs and
operations of the law enforcement agencies, law enforcement
equipment, payment of insurance premiums for the law enforcement
agencies, and insurance premiums for injuries or death of rural law
enforcement officers.
SECTION 3. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 906.2 of Title 19, unless there
is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A. When grant funds are made available for such purposes, the
Office of the Attorney General shall administer grants from any
monies which may be available for the purposes of promoting public
safety and for the improvement of law enforcement services in rural
areas of the State of Oklahoma. Any such grant monies shall be
distributed in the manner provided by law.
B. 1. The Office of the Attorney General shall, in writing,
notify the rural law enforcement coordination district of any
available grant monies by August 1 of each year.
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2. Each rural law enforcement district desiring to obtain such
grant monies for improvement of rural law enforcement services
within such district shall submit such request to the Office of the
Attorney General, in such form and in such manner as required by the
Office of the Attorney General, by September 1, of each year.
3. By October 1 of each year, the Office of the Attorney
General shall make a determination on the allocation of such grant
monies to the rural law enforcement coordination districts. Upon
approval, the Office of the Attorney General shall distribute the
forms required by law to all grantees to certify the grant. The
prescribed form shall be signed by the grantee and returned to the
Office of the Attorney General before the grant becomes official.
Expenditures made prior to the date of the grant shall not be
considered for reimbursement.
4. Rural law enforcement agencies shall submit copies of paid
invoices, canceled checks or other proof of purchase, attached to
the prescribed form when requesting reimbursement.
5. Rural law enforcement agencies shall keep complete and
accurate records of grant expenditures and make this information
available to the Office of the Attorney General or the law
enforcement coordinators upon request.
6. Approved claims shall be submitted by the Office of the
Attorney General for payment. Payment shall be sent promptly to the
contact person of the law enforcement agency when received.
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7. Rural law enforcement coordinators shall closely track the
progress of all grantees in the assigned rural law enforcement
district. An assessment by the rural law enforcement coordinator
shall be made to determine the amount of grant funds which remain
unobligated in each district and therefore available to make
additional grants within that district. The rural law enforcement
coordinators shall use the original prioritized list of grant
applications to make additional grants and submit a list of
additional grantees and amounts to the Office of the Attorney
General for processing and approval.
8. Follow-up compliance audits shall be performed by the rural
law enforcement coordinators and the Office of the Attorney General.
Rural law enforcement agencies shall be required to cooperate fully
during the compliance audit.
C. In addition to any criteria established by the Office of the
Attorney General for receipt of grant monies for rural law
enforcement coordination districts, the Office of the Attorney
General shall establish criteria to rate and prioritize applications
for funding such requests of the rural law enforcement coordination
districts. Such criteria shall include, but not be limited to,
consideration for the:
1. Number of residents, businesses, and size of the
municipality;
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2. Number of emergency and non-emergency calls for service per
calendar year;
3. Annual sales and property tax collections;
4. Policies and procedures of the law enforcement agency;
5. Law enforcement training requirements;
6. Compliance with legal requirements; and
7. Workers' compensation and vehicle liability insurance
coverage.
SECTION 4. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 906.3 of Title 19, unless there
is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
There is hereby created in the State Treasury a revolving fund
for the Office of the Attorney General, to be designated the "Rural
Law Enforcement Grant Revolving Fund". The fund shall be a
continuing fund, not subject to fiscal year limitations, and shall
consist of all monies received by the Office of the Attorney General
from any monies received from appropriations, deposits made pursuant
to the provisions of this act, and such other monies specifically
designated by law. All monies accruing to the credit of said fund
are hereby appropriated and may be budgeted and expended by the
Office of the Attorney General for the purpose of purchasing new law
enforcement equipment by rural law enforcement agencies and such
other purposes specifically designated by law. Expenditures from
said fund shall be made upon warrants issued by the State Treasurer
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against claims filed as prescribed by law with the Director of the
Office of Management and Enterprise Services for approval and
payment.
SECTION 5. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 906.4 of Title 19, unless there
is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
For coordination of improved law enforcement services in the
rural parts of this state, rural law enforcement coordination
districts are hereby created to consist of the following counties:
1. District 1, composed of Washington, Nowata, Craig, Ottawa,
Mayes, Delaware and Rogers Counties;
2. District 2, composed of Wagoner, Cherokee, Adair, Sequoyah,
Muskogee, Okmulgee and McIntosh Counties;
3. District 3, composed of Pittsburg, Haskell, LeFlore,
Pushmataha, Latimer, McCurtain and Choctaw Counties;
4. District 4, composed of Garvin, Pontotoc, Coal, Atoka,
Johnston, Murray, Carter, Love, Marshall and Bryan Counties;
5. District 5, composed of Lincoln, Okfuskee, Hughes, Seminole,
Pottawatomie, Payne, and Pawnee Counties;
6. District 6, composed of Creek, Osage and Tulsa Counties;
7. District 7, composed of Alfalfa, Grant, Kay, Noble,
Garfield, Major, Blaine and Kingfisher Counties;
8. District 8, composed of Canadian, Oklahoma, Cleveland and
Logan Counties;
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9. District 9, composed of Caddo, Comanche, Cotton, Grady,
Jefferson, McClain, Stephens and Tillman Counties;
10. District 10, composed of Roger Mills, Custer, Washita,
Beckham, Greer, Kiowa, Jackson and Harmon Counties; and
11. District 11, composed of Cimarron, Texas, Beaver, Harper,
Woods, Ellis, Woodward and Dewey Counties.
SECTION 6. This act shall become effective November 1, 2026.
60-2-13925 GRS 11/18/25