Oklahoma Sunset Law

This act establishes a "sunset" framework under which state agencies terminate automatically on scheduled dates unless the legislature affirmatively acts to continue, modify, or reestablish them. It creates a joint legislative review committee that evaluates each agency on a set schedule — holding public hearings, gathering information from the agency and from state auditing and legislative-services offices, applying zero-based review principles, and placing on the agency the burden of demonstrating a continuing public need — and then reports recommendations to the legislature for debate and a vote. It also governs the consequences of termination, providing for the winding up of a terminated agency's affairs, the abolition of its positions, the reversion of unexpended funds to the state, the expiration of licenses it issued, the unenforceability of its penalties, and the disposition of outstanding claims and unsettled accounts.

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