HB 3534 Summary

• Appropriates funds to the Oklahoma State Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Control for fiscal year ending June 30, 2015, with specific budgeting categories including Administrative Services, Enforcement, Wire Intercept/Drug Interdiction, Diversion, and Information Technology/Communications.

• Establishes the Director's salary limit and sets budgetary limitations on full-time-equivalent employees and expenditures, excluding capital and special projects authorized under Oklahoma Statutes Title 74, Section 3603.

• Authorizes transfer of up to $200,000 from appropriated funds to an agency special account for purchasing controlled dangerous substances as evidence, informant fees, and related enforcement expenses necessary to apprehend and convict drug law violators.

• Provides budgeting flexibility allowing funds to be allocated to either fiscal year 2015 or 2016, with specific encumbrance deadlines (June 30) and expenditure deadlines (November 15) to prevent fund lapse.

• Becomes effective July 1, 2014, and requires the Director and Director of State Finance to promulgate rules for fund expenditure from the special account.