HB 1134 Summary

• Appropriates funds to the State Department of Rehabilitation Services for fiscal year ending June 30, 2012, with budgeting requirements across four service categories: Vocational Rehabilitative and Visual Services, Oklahoma School for the Blind, Oklahoma School for the Deaf, and Disability Determination Division.

• Limits the Director's salary to a specified amount per annum and establishes full-time-equivalent (FTE) employee limitations and lease-purchase agreement caps for the agency.

• Exempts Disability Determination Unit employees whose salaries are funded entirely by federal funds from the agency's FTE limit.

• Authorizes the Director to request early tax collection transfers to address cash-flow problems and permits transfers between various rehabilitation services funds for client service, supported employment, and independent living programs.

• Establishes interyear transfer provisions allowing carryover of unobligated funds from FY 2011 to FY 2012, with expenditure deadlines of November 15 for each respective fiscal year and requires lapse of remaining funds thereafter.