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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
2nd Session of the 60th Legislature (2026)
SENATE BILL 1350 By: Coleman
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to the Oklahoma Department of
Commerce; creating the Oklahoma State Data Center;
establishing responsibilities; creating the Oklahoma
State Data Center Revolving Fund; providing for
sources of revenues; providing purposes of fund;
providing for expenditures; making an appropriation
to the Oklahoma State Data Center Revolving Fund;
stating purpose; providing for codification;
providing an effective date; and declaring an
emergency.
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 5019.1 of Title 74, unless there
is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
There is hereby created the Oklahoma State Data Center. The
Oklahoma State Data Center shall be subject to the administrative
direction of the Oklahoma Department of Commerce. The Oklahoma
State Data Center shall be the primary center for applied population
research for the state and shall be the official contact with the
United States Bureau of the Census and shall be the originator and
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official conductor of all special censuses for the state. The
responsibilities of the Oklahoma State Data Center are:
1. To prepare, maintain, and interpret population statistics,
estimates, and projections including distributions of the state’s
population by political subdivisions and ethnic and racial
population;
2. To cooperate and give assistance to other state agencies and
organizations in the preparation, maintenance, and interpretation of
demographic information;
3. To prepare a biennial report on the state of the state’s
population for electronic submission to the Governor and the
Legislature with policy implications of the state’s population
trends;
4. To provide technical assistance to the Legislature for
purposes of reapportionment;
5. To assist other divisions and advisory committees of the
Oklahoma Department of Commerce by providing demographic data
necessary for their activities; and
6. To hire a state demographer.
SECTION 2. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 5013.4 of Title 74, unless there
is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
There is hereby created in the State Treasury a revolving fund
for the Oklahoma Department of Commerce to be designated the
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“Oklahoma State Data Center Revolving Fund”. The fund shall be a
continuing fund, not subject to fiscal year limitations, and shall
consist of all monies received by the Oklahoma Department of
Commerce from monies received for costs of data processing, copying,
duplication, and other costs incident to the production of printed
reports from entities receiving such services for the purpose
provided for in Section 1 of this act. All monies accruing to the
credit of the fund are hereby appropriated and may be budgeted and
expended by the Oklahoma Department of Commerce for the purpose
provided for in Section 1 of this act. Expenditures from the fund
shall be made upon warrants issued by the State Treasurer against
claims filed as prescribed by law with the Director of the Office of
Management and Enterprise Services for approval and payment.
SECTION 3. There is hereby appropriated to the Oklahoma State
Data Center Revolving Fund from any monies not otherwise
appropriated from the General Revenue Fund of the State Treasury for
the fiscal year ending June 30, 2027, the sum of Five Hundred
Thousand Dollars ($500,000.00) or so much thereof as may be
necessary to perform the duties imposed upon the Oklahoma Department
of Commerce in Section 1 of this act.
SECTION 4. This act shall become effective July 1, 2026.
SECTION 5. It being immediately necessary for the preservation
of the public peace, health or safety, an emergency is hereby
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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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