HB 3198 Summary

• Re-creates the Oklahoma Educational Television Authority with a new termination date of July 1, 2020 (extended from July 1, 2014) under the Oklahoma Sunset Law.

• Maintains the Authority's 13-member board structure including presidents of OU and OSU, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Chancellor of Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education, and seven gubernatorially-appointed members with seven-year terms.

• Requires the Executive Director to distribute comprehensive plans to all legislators by January 15, 2015 detailing how the Authority could operate without state appropriations over three, five, or seven-year periods.

• Plans must include legal obstacles, license implications, debt obligations, analysis of other states' public television funding models, impediments to self-funding, and complete inventories of owned and leased assets.