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An Act
ENROLLED SENATE
BILL NO. 1151 By: Hall and Haste of the
Senate
and
Caldwell (Trey) and Kane of
the House
An Act relating to the Oklahoma Water Resources
Board; making appropriations; identifying sources of
funds; stating purposes; providing an effective date;
and declaring an emergency.
SUBJECT: Oklahoma Water Resources Board appropriations
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated to the Oklahoma Water
Resources Board from any monies not otherwise appropriated from the
Progressing Rural Economic Prosperity Fund of the State Treasury
created in Section 256 of Title 62 of the Oklahoma Statutes, the sum
of Two Million Dollars ($2,000,000.00) for the purpose of providing
water infrastructure funding to a rural water sewer and solid waste
management district in the central region of the state experiencing
private water well contamination from an unknown source and needing
connected with a public water supply.
SECTION 2. There is hereby appropriated to the Oklahoma Water
Resources Board from any monies not otherwise appropriated from the
Progressing Rural Economic Prosperity Fund of the State Treasury
created in Section 256 of Title 62 of the Oklahoma Statutes, the sum
of Two Million Dollars ($2,000,000.00) for the purpose of
constructing water lines in a county with a population greater than
one hundred fifty thousand (150,000) and less than two hundred
thousand (200,000) according to the latest Federal Decennial Census
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and located in a community not adjacent to a major roadway
designated as an interstate.
SECTION 3. There is hereby appropriated to the Oklahoma Water
Resources Board from any monies not otherwise appropriated from the
Progressing Rural Economic Prosperity Fund of the State Treasury
created in Section 256 of Title 62 of the Oklahoma Statutes, the sum
of Two Hundred Thousand Dollars ($200,000.00) for the purpose of
establishing grant programs that facilitate the design,
construction, and maintenance of water and wastewater
infrastructure, and to improve the condition of publicly owned,
deficient dams regulated by the Oklahoma Water Resources Board.
SECTION 4. This act shall become effective July 1, 2025.
SECTION 5. It being immediately necessary for the preservation
of the public peace, health or safety, an emergency is hereby
declared to exist, by reason whereof this act shall take effect and
be in full force from and after its passage and approval.
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Passed the Senate the 20th day of May, 2025.
Presiding Officer of the Senate
Passed the House of Representatives the 22nd day of May, 2025.
Presiding Officer of the House
of Representatives
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
Received by the Office of the Governor this ____________________
day of ___________________, 20_______, at _______ o'clock _______ M.
By: _________________________________
Approved by the Governor of the State of Oklahoma this _________
day of ___________________, 20_______, at _______ o'clock _______ M.
_________________________________
Governor of the State of Oklahoma
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE
Received by the Office of the Secretary of State this __________
day of __________________, 20 _______, at _______ o'clock _______ M.
By: _________________________________