HB 1241 Summary

• Appropriates funds to the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation for fiscal year ending June 30, 2010, with specific budget categories for Administration, Investigative Services, Information Services, Criminalistic Services, and Management Information Services.

• Establishes budgetary limitations on full-time-equivalent employees and expenditures, with the Director's salary capped at $0.00 and maximum $50,000 authorized for transfer to an Evidence Fund special account.

• Designates eleven full-time-equivalent positions for the Criminal Intelligence Unit and nine positions for the Criminal Records Audit Unit, contingent on sufficient agency revolving funds.

• Allows appropriations to be budgeted for either FY-10 or FY-11 with specific encumbrance and expiration deadlines (November 15 following each fiscal year), with authority to request exemptions for unanticipated federal funds.

• Becomes effective July 1, 2009, with an emergency clause for immediate implementation upon passage and approval.