ENROLLED SENATE
BILL NO. 1410 By: Taylor of the Senate
and
Mize
of the House
An Act relating to energy; creating the Oklahoma Emergency
Energy Availability Act of 2022; providing short title; defining terms;
directing certain entities to develop certain energy plans; requiring certain
entities to include a certain number of energy sources in an energy policy or emergency
energy plan; directing the Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management to
promulgate rules for certain provisions; providing for codification; and
providing an effective date.
SUBJECT: Emergency energy availability plans
BE IT
ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1.
NEW LAW A new section of law
to be codified in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 9060 of Title 74, unless
there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A. This act shall be
known and may be cited as the “Oklahoma Emergency Energy Availability Act of
2022”.
B.
As used in the Oklahoma Emergency Energy Availability Act of 2022:
1.
“Energy policy” means any policy or commitment pertaining to the
sourcing of electrical power generation, energy conservation methods, or energy
development; and
2. “Energy source” means any source used to
generate electric power including but not limited to biomass, coal, hydroelectricity,
natural gas, hydrogen, nuclear, oil,
solar, water, and wind.
C.
1. On or after the effective date
of this act, any agency, department, bureau, system of higher education, school
district, township, or municipality within this state which has an energy
policy in place or that chooses to develop an energy policy shall develop an
emergency energy plan detailing methods or sources of energy during a state of
emergency.
2. On or after the
effective date of this act, any agency, department, bureau, system of higher
education, school district, township, or municipality within this state which
has or develops an energy policy and an emergency energy plan pursuant to paragraph
1 of this subsection shall not source energy for such plans from a single energy
source and shall develop policies for the acquisition of electrical power
generated from at least three distinct energy sources.
D. The Oklahoma
Department of Emergency Management shall promulgate rules to effectuate the
provisions of this section.
SECTION 2.
This act shall become effective November 1, 2022.
Passed the Senate the 16th day of February, 2022.
Presiding Officer of the Senate
Passed the House of Representatives the 26th day of April, 2022.
Presiding Officer of the House
of Representatives
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
Received
by the Office of the Governor this ____________________ day of
___________________, 20_______, at _______ o'clock _______ M.
By: _________________________________
Approved
by the Governor of the State of Oklahoma this _________ day of
___________________, 20_______, at _______ o'clock _______ M.
_________________________________
Governor of the State of Oklahoma
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE
Received
by the Office of the Secretary of State this __________ day of
__________________, 20 _______, at _______ o'clock _______ M.
By: _________________________________