ENGROSSED SENATE
BILL NO. 1191	By:	Paddack and Coates of the Senate

			and

		Thomsen of the House

An Act relating to the State Highway Modification Task Force; creating task force; stating purpose; stating membership; requiring appointments by certain date; providing for staffing and travel reimbursement; providing for administrative support; requiring report by certain date; directing distribution; providing for noncodification; and declaring an emergency.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1.     NEW LAW     A new section of law not to be codified in the Oklahoma Statutes reads as follows:
A.  There is hereby created until December 1, 2013, the "State Highway Modification Task Force" for the purpose of studying and evaluating State Highway 99 expansion.  The task force study shall specifically include a portion of State Highway 99 between Stroud and Ada that will address the proposed widening of the highway from two lanes to four lanes.  The task force shall also address any other pertinent issues it deems necessary to carry out the scope of such projects.
B.  The State Highway Modification Task Force shall consist of eleven (11) members, as follows:
1.  The Secretary of Transportation, or a designee;
2.  The Governor of the Chickasaw Nation, or a designee;
3.  The Chief of the Sac and Fox Nation, or a designee;
4.  A representative from a statewide organization representing counties appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives;
5.  A representative from a transportation advocacy group appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives;
6.  A representative from a statewide organization representing municipalities appointed by the President Pro Tempore of the Senate;
7.  A representative from a road and bridge organization appointed by the President Pro Tempore of the Senate;
8.  Two (2) members of the Oklahoma State Senate, appointed by the President Pro Tempore of the Senate; and
9.  Two (2) members of the Oklahoma House of Representatives, appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Any vacancy on the task force shall be filled in the same manner as the original appointment.
The President Pro Tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall each designate one of the legislative members appointed to the task force to serve as cochair.
Appointments made pursuant to this section shall be finalized no later than July 1, 2012.
The cochair shall convene the first meeting of the task force.  The task force shall meet as often as it deems necessary.  Members of the task force shall serve without compensation.  Nonlegislative task force members employed by the state shall be reimbursed for travel expenses related to their service on the task force by their appointing authority in accordance with the provisions of the State Travel Reimbursement Act.  Legislative members of the task force shall be reimbursed for their necessary travel expenses incurred in the performance of their duties in accordance with Section 456 of Title 74 of the Oklahoma Statutes.
Administrative support for the task force shall be provided by the Department of Transportation to be supplemented, if necessary, by the staff of the Senate and the House of Representatives.  All participating state agencies shall provide for any administrative support as requested by the task force.
C.  The task force shall report its findings and recommendations to the Governor, the President Pro Tempore of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and the Oklahoma Transportation Commission on or before December 1, 2013.  The report shall be prepared by the staff of the Department of Transportation.
SECTION 2.  It being immediately necessary for the preservation of the public peace, health and 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.
Passed the Senate the 1st day of March, 2012.

	
	Presiding Officer of the Senate

Passed the House of Representatives the ____ day of __________, 2012.

	
	Presiding Officer of the House
	of Representatives