| HB1741 | Paraphrase: | authorizes district courts to establish a family drug court for treating children adjudicated as deprived and for treating their families who have in some way a substance abuse disorder. The bill establishes processes and provides court guidance on broad case matters, assessments and hearings. The bill creates the Family Drug Court Revolving Fund. In the Senate, the bill was amended to allow a family drug court assessment to be ordered by motion of the Department of Human Services, and it removes language specifying district courts. It also modifies language to include multiple children in a household. The CCR modifies language under the Oklahoma Children's Code regarding the Department of Human Services' responsibility to refer families to prevention and intervention-related services. It allows DHS to recommend a child be placed in protective or emergency custody or a petition be filed if the family refuses to access services directly related to the safety of the child. It also modifies the definition of "routine and ordinary medical care and treatment" to include the provision of psychotropic medications. It removes a requirement calling for the publication once a week for three weeks of notice for custody-related hearings. It also clarifies that a parent is entitled to demand a jury trial on the sole issue of termination of parental rights. The measure also states that all other hearings and proceedings, other than those to determine whether a child is deprived or to terminate parental rights, are to be conducted informally, and the rules of evidence do not apply. It retains the language regarding family drug courts. The CCR also increases from two to five the number of judicial days prior to movement of a foster child. It also allows a court to extend a period of trial reunification. It also modifies language related to orders of a referee, directing that they become effective and continue until vacated or modified upon rehearing by order of the reviewing judge. The bill modifies language regarding arrangements for a child whose custodial parent has been incarcerated. The CCR also allows proceedings under the Inpatient Mental Health and Substance Abuse treatment of Minors Act to be conducted via teleconference. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Ron Peters (H), Sean Burrage (S) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2009 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 05/27/2010 | Current Status: | Governor Action - Signed | |
| HB2004 | Paraphrase: | includes methods on mental illness symptoms identification and mental health issues in preservice programs developed by the Commission for Teacher Preparation. The bill requires school administrators, teachers and other school employees to be trained to recognize, accommodate and assist students with mental health issues. The CCR removes the requirement that the preservice programs be developed by the Commission for Teacher Preparation. The CCR also removes the requirement that current school administrators, teachers and other school employees to be trained to recognize, accommodate and assist students with mental health issues. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Harold Wright (H), Gary Michael Stanislawski (S) | |||
| Effective Date: | 07/01/2009 | Emergency: | Yes | |
| Status Date: | 06/07/2010 | Current Status: | Governor Action - Signed | |
| HB2168 | Paraphrase: | provides that any plea of guilty or finding of guilt for certain assault violations shall constitute a conviction for a period of 10 years following the completion of any court imposed probationary term, providing good behavior. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Mark McCullough (H), Patrick Anderson (S) | |||
| Effective Date: | / / | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 04/16/2010 | Current Status: | Governor Action - Signed | |
| HB2746 | Paraphrase: | adds unlawful delivery of a controlled dangerous substance using a motor vehicle to the list of offenses for which the Department of Public Safety may revoke driving privileges. It clarifies language that revocation may occur if a motor vehicle was used in the perpetration of certain offenses. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Lee Denney (H), Jim Halligan (S) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2010 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 05/10/2010 | Current Status: | Governor Action - Signed | |
| HB2776 | Paraphrase: | creates a presumption that the best interest of the public is served by disclosing information when a person responsible for the care of a vulnerable adult is charged or indicted with committing a crime resulting in the death or near death of the adult. It directs disclosure of the circumstances of the investigation and any other investigations concerning the vulnerable adult or others living in the same facility or involving the individual provider of services. The bill also prescribes the release of certain information seven days after the person providing care to the vulnerable adult has been criminally charged and the Department of Human Services Adult Protective Services Division, district attorney, district court clerk and judge have jurisdiction over the case. It prohibits the information from identifying or providing an identifying description of a complainant or reporter of vulnerable adult abuse or neglect, the names of other vulnerable adults in the household or facility, the name of the person responsible for caring for the adult and any other member of the facility or household. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Kris Steele (H), Ron Justice (S) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2010 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 04/16/2010 | Current Status: | Governor Action - Signed | |
| HB2827 | Paraphrase: | allows a victim of domestic violence, stalking or harassment to request a petition for an emergency temporary order of protection when a court is not open for business. It provides a definition of "stalking" under the Protection from Domestic Abuse Act and Domestic Abuse Reporting Act. It allows persons seeking a protective order under the Protection from Domestic Abuse Act to request the exclusive care, possession or control of any animal owned, leased or kept by the petitioner, defendant or minor child in the residence. It allows the court to order a defendant to make no contact with the animal. The measure also extends rights granted victims of domestic abuse to victims of rape, forcible sodomy or stalking. It allows a court to consider in determining a bond and other conditions of release certain factors, including whether the person has a history of domestic violence or other violent acts, the person's mental health, whether the person has a history of violating court orders and whether the person is a potential threat to another. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Ron Peters (H), Patrick Anderson (S) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2010 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 04/16/2010 | Current Status: | Governor Action - Signed | |
| HB2934 | Paraphrase: | allows a court to require someone who must register under the Sex Offenders Registration Act to register any e-mail address information used for social networking or other similar Internet communications. It directs the Department of Corrections, upon the request of an Internet entity, to release such information that would allow the entity to prescreen or remove sex offenders from its services or to advise law enforcement of potential violations to law or threats to public safety. It requires DOC to update information monthly. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Ken Luttrell (H), Patrick Anderson (S) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2009 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 05/10/2010 | Current Status: | Governor Action - Signed | |
| HB2999 | Paraphrase: | directs the Board of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services and the Oklahoma Health Care Authority Board to continue until June 30, 2013, to purchase, on a fee-for-service basis, treatment services provided by certified alcohol and drug counselors, if they are provided by certified alcohol and drug counselors employed by organizations under contract with the mental health or OHCA boards. It states that nothing in the bill prohibits the Board of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services or the OHCA Board from initiating or terminating contracts with certified substance abuse providers, establishing contract limits, developing or modifying reimbursement schedules or otherwise managing appropriated resources on behalf of the state. The CCR adds language clarifying the terms of Board of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services to be seven years and allows members to be re-appointed to subsequent terms. The CCR also allows rather than requires the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services to maintain specific facilities in the state. It adds municipal employees to the list of persons required to make reports regarding a vulnerable adult suffering from abuse, neglect or exploitation. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Kris Steele (H), Brian Crain (S) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2010 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 06/10/2010 | Current Status: | Governor Action - Signed | |
| HB3158 | Paraphrase: | allows the period of supervision in a drug court program to be extended by a court order. It directs a drug court judge, district attorney, attorney for the offender and supervising staff for the drug court program to evaluate the appropriateness of continued supervision on a quarterly basis. The measure limits the amount of treatment during the extended period of supervision to six months, and it prohibits treatment dollars from being expended on the offender during the extension. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Leslie Osborn (H), Ron Justice (S) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2010 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 05/10/2010 | Current Status: | Governor Action - Signed | |
| HJR1065 | Paraphrase: | creates the Oklahoma Juvenile Justice Reform Committee to study and make recommendations on the state's juvenile justice code. It directs state departments, agencies and officers and employees to cooperate with the committee. It states that the committee is to be comprised of 20 members. It directs the committee to prepare a report of its recommendations on the most efficient organization, most effective transition programs, incorporation of existing statutes and updates to statutory language to the House speaker and Senate president pro tempore by Dec. 1, 2011. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Ron Peters (H), Patrick Anderson (S) | |||
| Effective Date: | / / | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 04/19/2010 | Current Status: | Governor Action - Signed | |
| SB0479 | Paraphrase: | creates the Oklahoma Interventional Pain Management and Treatment Act. The bill makes it unlawful to practice or offer to practice interventional pain management unless a person is licensed under the provisions of the Oklahoma Allopathic Medical and Surgical Licensure and Supervision Act or the Oklahoma Osteopathic Medicine Act. The measure states that the new law does not forbid the administration of lumbar intra-laminar epidural steroid injections or peripheral nerve blocks by a certified registered nurse anesthetist when requested by a physician and under the supervision of a licensed allopathic or osteopathic physician and under conditions in which timely on-site consultation by such allopathic or osteopathic physician is available. It also prohibits a certified registered nurse anesthetist from operating a freestanding pain management facility without direct supervision of a physician who is board-certified in interventional pain management or its equivalent. It also permits the State Board of Osteopathic Examiners to impose administrative penalties against any person who violates any of the provisions of the act or any rule promulgated under the act. The bill authorizes the board to initiate disciplinary and injunctive proceedings against any person who has violated any provisions of the act or any rule of the board promulgated under the act. The bill also authorizes the board to apply for relief by injunction in the established manner provided in cases of civil procedure, without bond, to enforce the provisions of the act or to restrain any violation of the act. The measure also exempts members of the board from being personally liable for proceeding under the act. It requires osteopathic physicians engaged in interventional pain management pursuant to the act to be licensed by the State Board of Osteopathic Examiners. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Clark Jolley (S), John Trebilcock (H) | |||
| Effective Date: | / / | Emergency: | Yes | |
| Status Date: | 04/09/2010 | Current Status: | Governor Action - Signed | |
| SB0956 | Paraphrase: | modifies language related to human trafficking, defining terminology and what constitutes "human trafficking." It increases from 14 to 18, the age of victims that would constitute stiffer penalties for conviction of human trafficking. The bill states that victims may seek civil damages with or without criminal conviction. It also establishes a statute of limitations for civil action, stipulating that the cause of action shall not commence until the latter of the victim's emancipation from the defendant or the victim's twenty-first birthday. The bill also makes it illegal to knowingly engage in human trafficking and increases victims' age from under 14 to under 18 years of age at which the offense will be deemed a felony. It allows victims to bring a civil action against the person or persons responsible for human trafficking and to recover actual and punitive damages and reasonable attorneys fees. It also states that a criminal prosecution is not necessary for filing a civil action and establishes that the statute of limitations for the cause of action will not commence until the latter of the victim's emancipation form the defendant or the victim's 21st birthday. The bill allows law enforcement officers to seize any vehicle or other property used to facilitate or participate in human trafficking or when used by a prostitute, pimp or panderer to facilitate or participate in prostitution. The bill exempts vehicles or property used by a customer or anyone procuring the services or a prostitute from seizure. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Todd Lamb (S), Pam Peterson (H) | |||
| Effective Date: | / / | Emergency: | Yes | |
| Status Date: | 06/07/2010 | Current Status: | Governor Action - Signed | |
| SB1488 | Paraphrase: | authorizes the Oklahoma Capitol Improvement Authority to issue obligations of $6 million to provide financing for the acquisition of property and to construct buildings for a facility to provide inpatient and outpatient services for the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services. The funds are to be used to replace a facility in Tulsa. The bill makes the issue contingent on the authority finding that the department has received at least $6 million in private donations designated for the construction of the facility. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Mike Johnson (S), David Myers (S), Scott Martin (H), Kenneth Miller (H) | |||
| Effective Date: | 09/01/2010 | Emergency: | Yes | |
| Status Date: | 06/10/2010 | Current Status: | Governor Action - Signed | |
| SB1561 | Paraphrase: | makes $6.67 billion in general appropriations to executive, legislative and judicial agencies for fiscal year 2011. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Mike Johnson (S), David Myers (S), Scott Martin (H), Kenneth Miller (H) | |||
| Effective Date: | 07/01/2010 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 06/10/2010 | Current Status: | Governor Action - Signed | |
| SB1579 | Paraphrase: | adds employees of the Oklahoma Public Employees Retirements System, the Teachers Retirement System and the State Election Board to the unclassified service. The bill also adds employees in certain positions in the Office of State Finance and the Department of Central Services to the unclassified service. It repeals language that declares all employees of the Teachers Retirement System to be classified employees. The measure also requires that the involuntary furloughs of employees by the Senate president pro tempore, the House speaker or authorized by the Oklahoma Supreme Court shall not count as a break in continuous employment for the purpose of calculating retirement benefits. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Mike Johnson (S), David Myers (S), Scott Martin (H), Kenneth Miller (H) | |||
| Effective Date: | / / | Emergency: | Yes | |
| Status Date: | 06/08/2010 | Current Status: | Governor Action - Signed | |
| SB1601 | Paraphrase: | modifies language related to the Protective Services for Vulnerable Adults Act, stating that records of investigations conducted under the act cannot be expunged except by court order. The bill also directs the Department of Human Services and the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services, contingent upon funding, to develop and implement an 11-member Vulnerable Adult Intervention Task Force to study and examine how to best provide interdisciplinary community assistance, intervention and referral services for persons with mental or physical illnesses or disabilities, dementia or other related diseases or conditions. It directs the task force to submit a report to the Legislature by Dec. 31, 2010, and annually thereafter. The bill states that if the department is currently or was previously appointed as temporary guardian of the alleged victim of abuse, neglect, financial exploitation or financial neglect, any petition or motion requesting expungement of the investigative records of the department shall be filed under the same case number. It requires that written notice of the hearing and a copy of any such petition or motion shall be properly and timely served upon: the alleged victim of abuse, neglect, financial exploitation or financial neglect; the department's office of general counsel and any other counsel of record in a proceeding in which the department was appointed as temporary guardian, an all other persons due notice in a guardianship proceeding. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Sean Burrage (S), Ron Peters (H) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2010 | Emergency: | Yes | |
| Status Date: | 06/11/2010 | Current Status: | Governor Action - Signed | |
| SB1772 | Paraphrase: | directs information, records and reports related to investigations by the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services into allegations of consumer abuse, neglect or mistreatment to be confidential and privileged, not open to public inspection or subject to subpoena. It allows a court to order inspection or disclosure of such records only after a review of the records and a determination that compelling reason exists for privilege to be waived and the inspection or disclosure of the records is necessary to protect a legitimate public or private interest. The measure allows the department to summarize allegations made, facts and evidence gathered and findings and to provide that summary to certain individuals or entities. It removes language related to the department's advocate general. It prohibits the department from charging in excess of $300 for site visit fees for inspections and certifications. The bill directs the Board of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services to promulgate rules for certification of peer recovery support specialists employed by the state or behavioral service providers contracting with the state. It allows the board to promulgate rules establishing fines for failure to meet required rules for such certification. In the House, the bill was amended to modify terms for members of the board, limiting terms to seven years unless reappointed. It authorizes the department to declare and dispose of surplus equipment. It removes language related to receipt and use of federal funds. It removes language restricting original leases to 10 years. It requires community mental health facilities to comply with rules promulgated by the department. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Patrick Anderson (S), Scott Martin (H) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2010 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 05/27/2010 | Current Status: | Governor Action - Signed | |
| SB1819 | Paraphrase: | creates the Direct Care Worker Advisory Council to make recommendations on maximizing profitability, minimizing redundancy, introducing uniformity and certification, and it directs the council to report those recommendations to the governor, speaker of the House and president pro tempore of the Senate by Nov. 30, 2011. The bill establishes membership guidelines and provides for travel reimbursements. In the House, the bill was replaced with language allowing any 16-year-old with parental permission or any 17-year-old without parental permission to donate blood voluntarily. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Brian Crain (S), Doug Cox (H) | |||
| Effective Date: | 12/01/2010 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 05/04/2010 | Current Status: | Governor Action - Signed | |
| SB2007 | Paraphrase: | removes time-specific language related to the Department of Public Safety canceling or denying driving privileges for those under the age of 18. The bill also requires that if the person is less than 16 years of age at the time of the determination and will be less than 16 years of age at the end of the cancellation or denial period, the department will extend the period to the date the individual turns 16. The bill also limits certain denial modifications to Class D motor vehicles only and prohibits certain other modifications. It directs that anyone issued an intermediate Class D license for one year and has not been convicted of a traffic offense for that one-year period or anyone issued a six-month intermediate license, having completed other prerequisites, and has not been convicted of a traffic offense for that six-month period may be issued a Class D license. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Don Barrington (S), Jason Nelson (H) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2010 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 06/07/2010 | Current Status: | Governor Action - Signed | |
| SB2054 | Paraphrase: | authorizes the insurance commissioner to require any entity obligated to submit or file documents with the Department of Insurance to electronically file the documents. The bill also clarifies language in the Oklahoma Insurance Code and removes outdated language. The bill also eliminates the requirement to certain funds collected be paid to the state treasury for credit to the General Revenue Fund. The bill eliminates the requirement that the Department of Insurance mail an affidavit of exempt status under the Workers' Compensation Act form to those requesting it but requires the department to make the form available on its Web site. The bill requires insurers that use credit information to provide certain information if the consumer's credit information has been directly influenced by certain events. The bill permits a nonresident life or accident and health insurance broker applicant to receive a license in Oklahoma if they are licensed and in good standing in their home state and if the applicant's home state awards nonresident licenses to Oklahoma residents on the same basis. The bill modifies language related to health benefit plans and eliminates group policies applicable to less than 50 people from the definition. The bill removes commercial lines insurance risks or portions thereof that are not rated according to manual, rating plans or schedules, including "a" rates, from the exemption from review requirements. It creates the Unauthorized Insurers and Surplus Lines Insurance Act. It modifies language referring to surplus line insurers. It requires all licensed administrators to file an annual report for the previous calendar year reviewed by a certified public accountant who shall be independent of the administrator. The bill adds advisory board or advisory organizations to the list of organizations that are required to make loss runs or claims history available to current and former policyholders within thirty 30 days upon a written request by the policyholder. The bill permits a nonresident life or accident and health insurance broker applicant to receive an Oklahoma license if they are licensed and in good standing in their home state, and if the home state of the applicant awards nonresident licenses to residents of Oklahoma on the same basis. The bill amends the Genetic Nondiscrimination in Insurance Act to certain acts on the basis of genetic information. The bill also permits health benefit plans to provide coverage other than those required by law for mental health and substance use disorders. The bill also provides that treatment limitations for mental health and substance abuse disorder benefits will be no more restrictive than the predominant treatment limitations substantially applied to all medical and surgical benefits covered by the plan and that there shall be no separate treatment limitations applicable only to mental health or substance abuse disorder benefits. The bill requires the board to develop a plan to end the business of the Oklahoma Small Employer Health Reinsurance Program. The bill requires the board to submit the plan to the insurance commissioner for approval within 120 days of the effective date of the program's repeal and requires that the plan include, but not be limited to, an accounting of the funds and expenses of the Oklahoma Small Employer Health Reinsurance Program and a detailed description of the method of reimbursement of any funds or monies from the initial assessment to any reinsuring carriers. The bill modifies certain reporting requirements related to medical professional liability insurance policy claims. The bill permits a professional employer organization, or PEO, to use a qualified assurance organization as approved by the commissioner to provide services related to the registration of the PEO. The bill also repeals requirements that copies of volunteer fire department ordinances be submitted to the insurance commissioner. The bill also repeals additional language concerning the Small Employer Health Insurance Reform Act. The bill repeals language related to the application for license as a service warranty association. In the House, the bill was amended to remove the repealer of language under the Service Warranty Insurance Act related to application for license as a service warranty association. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Bill Brown (S), Daniel Sullivan (H) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2010 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 05/06/2010 | Current Status: | Governor Action - Signed | |
| SB2113 | Paraphrase: | amends, merges, consolidates and repeals duplicate sections of law. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Patrick Anderson (S), Rex Duncan (H) | |||
| Effective Date: | / / | Emergency: | Yes | |
| Status Date: | 03/03/2010 | Current Status: | Governor Action - Signed | |
| SB2124 | Paraphrase: | defines specific support activities for rail transportation and specific support activities for water transportation as "basic industry" in relation to tax and incentive purposes. In the House, language was added to include alternative energy structure construction, solar reflective coating application and solar heating equipment installation to the definition of "basic industry" under certain conditions. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Mike Mazzei (S), Jeff Hickman (H) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2010 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 06/07/2010 | Current Status: | Governor Action - Signed | |
| SB2126 | Paraphrase: | includes "technology center school district" in the definition of "political subdivision" under the Governmental Tort Claims Act. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Debbe Leftwich (S), Randy Terrill (H) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2010 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 05/10/2010 | Current Status: | Governor Action - Signed | |
| SB2128 | Paraphrase: | specifies within the Quality Jobs Act that a "qualified federal contract" shall not qualify unless both the qualified federal contractor and subcontractor verify to the qualified federal contractor verifier that they offer or will offer within 180 days of employment of their respective employees, a basic health benefits plan. The bill also increases the average wage requirement maximum from $25,000 to $29,409, and it states that within three years of the first complete calendar quarter that the federal contractor must have actual annual verified gross qualified labor hours of a minimum of $2.5 million to continue receiving incentive payment. It also provides for other reasons that the incentive payments shall not be made, including average annualized wage requirements. The bill also directs the Department of Commerce to determine prior to application approval that neither the federal contractor nor subcontractor have previously received incentive payments under several state incentive programs. The measure requires that a qualified federal contract involve services that are capable of being accomplished without a state of Oklahoma workforce and are performed by a state of Oklahoma workforce. It also requires a business to offer a basic health benefits plan to its employees within 180 days to qualify. It also requires that total qualified labor hours only apply to hours of work performed by a state of Oklahoma workforce. The bill also allows subcontractors in order of tier ranking as determined by a federal contract verifier to assume the role of the prime contractor and apply to become a qualified federal contractor should a prime contractor provide notice of its intent to not apply for incentive for a qualified federal contract. It requires all costs for the federal contract verifier to be reimbursed through value-added services on the qualified federal contract. The bill also requires a qualified federal contractor to pay $31 per hour in any county for qualified subcontractor work. It allows the Department of Commerce to establish a renewable 10-year contract with a qualified federal contractor using a net cost/benefit analysis model. It allows a qualified federal contractor or subcontractor receiving inventive payments under various state acts to defer in part or in entirety other incentives. | ||
| Principal Authors: | David Myers (S), Mike Jackson (H) | |||
| Effective Date: | 07/01/2010 | Emergency: | Yes | |
| Status Date: | 05/14/2010 | Current Status: | Governor Action - Signed | |
| SB2150 | Paraphrase: | makes assault and battery against a former spouse of one's current spouse to be punishable by not more than one year in prison and/or a $5,000 fine. In the House, language was modified to include a person who is or was in a dating relationship with the defendant. | ||
| Principal Authors: | John Sparks (S), Ron Peters (H) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2010 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 06/07/2010 | Current Status: | Governor Action - Signed | |
| SB2235 | Paraphrase: | requires a motion for an emergency custody hearing to include an independent report that demonstrates the child is in surroundings that could endanger the child in a court proceeding concerning child custody or child visitation. If there is no report, it requires an individual with personal knowledge that the child is in a surrounding that could endanger the child to provide a notarized affidavit. It also requires the court to conduct a hearing within 72 hours from when the motion and supporting documentation is received. It states a court shall not be required to conduct a subsequent hearing if the court finds any information included in a notarized affidavit is false. The bill also imposes certain limits judicial districts may place on the qualifications of parenting coordinators. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Brian Crain (S), Daniel Sullivan (H) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2010 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 06/07/2010 | Current Status: | Governor Action - Signed | |
| SB2239 | Paraphrase: | requires that the concealed handgun license issued by the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation to be issued in the applicant's county of residence. It also requires the sheriff to submit to OSBI legible fingerprints meeting OSBI's Automated Fingerprint Identification submission standards. It requires OSBI to either issue a concealed handgun license or deny an application within 60 days of the date of the receipt of the completed application if the background check reveals no records pertaining to the applicant. It requires the sheriff to issue or deny a concealed handgun license within 90 days in all other cases. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Steve Russell (S), John Enns (H) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2010 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 04/21/2010 | Current Status: | Governor Action - Signed | |
| SB2258 | Paraphrase: | creates the Greater Protecting Victims of Human Trafficking Act of 2010. The bill makes it unlawful for any person to intentionally destroy, hide, alter, abscond or keep documentation, including birth certificates, visas, passports, green cards or other documents utilized in the regular course to either verify or legally extend an individual's legal status within the United States for the purpose of trafficking a person. The bill authorizes the attorney general, subject to the availability of funds, to establish an emergency hotline number for victims of human trafficking to call in order to request assistance or rescue. The bill also authorizes the attorney general to enter into agreements with county health departments to require posting of the rights contained in the law and the hotline number for publication in locations as directed by the State Department of Health. The bill also modifies the definition of blackmail to including threatening to report a person as being illegally present in the United States. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Clark Jolley (S), Randy Terrill (H) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2010 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 06/08/2010 | Current Status: | Governor Action - Signed | |