SB1288 • 2026

Emergency management; providing for cost sharing of federal matching requirements. Emergency.

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Sponsor: Gillespie
Last action: 2026-02-17
Official status: Referred to Appropriations
Effective date: Not listed

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Emergency management; providing for cost sharing of federal matching requirements. Emergency.

Emergency management; providing for cost sharing of federal matching requirements.

What This Bill Does

Emergency management; providing for cost sharing of federal matching requirements.
Emergency.
Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for SB 1288 (Senate): Introduced (12/19/2025) Fiscal Impact Statements For SB 1288 (Senate): SB1288 INT FI.PDF (Fiscal (Senate))

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Bill History

2026-02-17 Senate
Reported Do Pass Local and County Government committee; CR filed
2026-02-17 Senate
Referred to Appropriations
2026-02-03 Senate
Second Reading referred to Local and County Government Committee then to Appropriations Committee
2026-02-03 Senate
Coauthored by Representative Lawson (principal House author)
2026-02-02 Senate
First Reading
2026-02-02 Senate
Authored by Senator Gillespie

Official Summary Text

Emergency management; providing for cost sharing of federal matching requirements. Emergency.
Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for SB 1288 (Senate): Introduced (12/19/2025)
Fiscal Impact Statements For SB 1288 (Senate): SB1288 INT FI.PDF (Fiscal (Senate))

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STATE OF OKLAHOMA

2nd Session of the 60th Legislature (2026)

SENATE BILL 1288 By: Gillespie

AS INTRODUCED

An Act relating to emergency management; amending 63
O.S. 2021, Section 683.24, which relates to the
Emergency Management Disaster Relief Matching Fund;
providing for cost sharing of federal matching
requirements; updating statutory language; and
declaring an emergency.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. AMENDATORY 63 O.S. 2021, Section 683.24, is
amended to read as follows:
Section 683.24. A. There is hereby created in the State
Treasury a special fund for the Oklahoma Department of Emergency
Management, to be designated the Emergency Management Disaster
Relief Matching Fund. The fund shall be a continuing fund not
subject to fiscal year limitations, and shall be composed of monies
that may be appropriated to or otherwise received by said the fund.
Said The fund is to be utilized as the state’s share of matching
requirements for federal funds advanced under the provisions of
Sections 402, 403 and 419, Public Law 93-288, Disaster Relief Act of
1974 and shall not be subject to legislative appropriation.

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B. The state’s share of matching requirements for federal funds
shall be equally shared by this state and any political subdivisions
of this state that receive public assistance program resources
administered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency as a result
of a federally declared disaster.
SECTION 2. 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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