OK SB229

Appropriates funds to the Department of Corrections from the General Revenue Fund for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2010, with the specific dollar amount left blank at $0.00.

Requires the Department of Corrections to budget funds across five categories: Administration, Institutions and Field Operations, Contract Beds, Community Corrections, and Treatment and Rehabilitation Services, with all amounts set at $0.00.

Authorizes the Director of Corrections to set employee duties and compensation, with the Director's salary capped at an unspecified amount (blank) not to exceed stated maximum for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2010.

Limits the Department to employing no more than six percent (6%) of total authorized full-time-equivalent employees in unclassified service positions and establishes budgetary limitations on full-time-equivalent employees and expenditures.

Becomes effective September 1, 2009; passed the Oklahoma Senate on March 3, 2009.