{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-69-69-1521v1","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 69, § 69-1521v1","heading":"Rebuilding Oklahoma Access and Driver Safety Fund","body":"A. There is hereby created in the State Treasury a fund to be\n\nknown as the “Rebuilding Oklahoma Access and Driver Safety Fund”.\n\nThe fund shall be a continuing fund, not subject to fiscal year\n\nlimitations, and shall consist of all appropriations and transfers\n\nmade by the Legislature. All monies accruing to the credit of the\n\nfund are hereby appropriated and may be budgeted and expended by the\n\nDepartment of Transportation for the purposes authorized by\n\nsubsection F of this section in amounts as authorized by the\n\nLegislature. Expenditures from the fund shall be made upon warrants\n\nissued by the State Treasurer against claims filed as prescribed by\n\nlaw with the Director of the Office of Management and Enterprise\n\nServices for approval and payment.\n\nB. Beginning July 1, 2021, except for an amount equivalent to\n\nthe amount of revenue apportioned to the Rebuilding Oklahoma Access\n\nand Driver Safety Fund pursuant to Section 500.4B of Title 68 and\n\nSection 1104 of Title 47 of the Oklahoma Statutes and from other\n\nsources apportioned to the fund by law, there shall be apportioned\n\nto the funds specified in this subsection from the monies that would\n\notherwise be apportioned to the General Revenue Fund by Section 2352\n\nof Title 68 of the Oklahoma Statutes from the revenues derived\n\npursuant to subsections A, B, and E of Section 2355 of Title 68 of\n\nthe Oklahoma Statutes amounts as follows:\n\n1. Subject to any reductions required by subsection E of this\n\nsection, there shall be apportioned to the Rebuilding Oklahoma\n\nAccess and Driver Safety Fund:\n\na. for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2021, and for\n\neach fiscal year thereafter, Eighty Million Dollars\n\n($80,000,000.00), which shall be allocated and used by\n\nthe Department of Transportation first for the purpose\n\nof making any required payments for principal,\n\ninterest, or other costs of borrowing with respect to\n\nthe obligations issued pursuant to Section 341 of\n\nTitle 73 of the Oklahoma Statutes and after any such\n\nrequired payment has been made then for the purposes\n\notherwise authorized by this section, plus\n\nb. the total amount apportioned to the Rebuilding\n\nOklahoma Access and Driver Safety Fund for the\n\npreceding fiscal year which, except for the amount\n\nprescribed by subparagraph a of this paragraph, shall\n\nbe apportioned before any other amount is apportioned\n\npursuant to Section 2352 of Title 68 of the Oklahoma\n\nStatutes, plus\n\nc. an additional amount that is required in order for the\n\ntotal apportionment to the Rebuilding Oklahoma Access\n\nand Driver Safety Fund from all sources for such\n\nfiscal year to equal:\n\n(1) Five Hundred Seventy-five Million Dollars\n\n($575,000,000.00) for the fiscal year beginning\n\nJuly 1, 2021, and\n\n(2) Five Hundred Ninety Million Dollars\n\n($590,000,000.00) for the fiscal year beginning\n\nJuly 1, 2022, and for each fiscal year\n\nthereafter.\n\nAll amounts apportioned pursuant to this paragraph shall be\n\ndivided into twelve equal amounts to be apportioned each month\n\nduring the fiscal year except the amount specified in subparagraph a\n\nof this paragraph which amount shall be allocated in its full amount\n\nin cash not later than July 30 each year or such later date as may\n\nbe required in order for the amount to be allocated in cash; and\n\n2. For each fiscal year after the apportionments required by\n\nparagraph 1 of this subsection have been made:\n\na. the next Two Million Dollars ($2,000,000.00) shall be\n\napportioned to the Oklahoma Tourism and Passenger Rail\n\nRevolving Fund created pursuant to Section 325 of\n\nTitle 66 of the Oklahoma Statutes to be used for\n\ncapital and operating costs for the “Heartland Flyer”\n\nrail project, and\n\nb. the next Three Million Dollars ($3,000,000.00) shall\n\nbe apportioned to the Public Transit Revolving Fund\n\ncreated pursuant to Section 4031 of this title to be\nll be\n\napportioned to the Oklahoma Tourism and Passenger Rail\n\nRevolving Fund created pursuant to Section 325 of\n\nTitle 66 of the Oklahoma Statutes to be used for\n\ncapital and operating costs for the “Heartland Flyer”\n\nrail project, and\n\nb. the next Three Million Dollars ($3,000,000.00) shall\n\nbe apportioned to the Public Transit Revolving Fund\n\ncreated pursuant to Section 4031 of this title to be\n\nused for purposes authorized by law other than the\n\npurpose described by subparagraph a of this paragraph.\n\nAll amounts apportioned pursuant to this paragraph shall be\n\ndivided into twelve equal amounts to be apportioned each month\n\nduring the fiscal year.\n\nC. The monies apportioned to the Rebuilding Oklahoma Access and\n\nDriver Safety Fund shall not be used to supplant or replace existing\n\nstate funds used for transportation purposes.\n\nD. In order to ensure that the funds from the Rebuilding\n\nOklahoma Access and Driver Safety Fund are used to enhance and not\n\nsupplant state funding for the Department of Transportation, the\n\nState Board of Equalization shall examine and investigate\n\nexpenditures from the fund each year. For purposes of this\n\nexamination, monies used to retire outstanding debt obligations for\n\nwhich the Department of Transportation is responsible shall be\n\nexcluded. At the meeting of the State Board of Equalization held\n\nwithin five (5) days after the monthly apportionment in February of\n\neach year, the State Board of Equalization shall issue a finding and\n\nreport which shall state whether expenditures from the Rebuilding\n\nOklahoma Access and Driver Safety Fund were used to enhance or\n\nsupplant state funding for the Department of Transportation. If the\n\nState Board of Equalization finds that state funding for the\n\nDepartment of Transportation was supplanted by funds from the\n\nRebuilding Oklahoma Access and Driver Safety Fund, the Board shall\n\nspecify the amount by which such funding was supplanted. In this\n\nevent, the Legislature shall not make any appropriations for the\n\nensuing fiscal year until an appropriation in that amount is made to\n\nreplenish state funding for the Department of Transportation.\n\nE. In the event that the Director of the Office of Management\n\nand Enterprise Services declares a General Revenue Fund revenue\n\nfailure pursuant to Section 34.49 of Title 62 of the Oklahoma\n\nStatutes, and agency allocations are reduced pursuant to the\n\nprovisions of Section 34.49 of Title 62 of the Oklahoma Statutes,\n\nthe amounts that would otherwise be apportioned to the Rebuilding\n\nOklahoma Access and Driver Safety Fund by:\n\n1. Subparagraph a of paragraph 1 of subsection B of this\n\nsection, only to the extent that the amount is not required for debt\n\nservice related to the obligations authorized pursuant to Section\n\n341 of Title 73 of the Oklahoma Statutes, Section 350 of Title 73 of\n\nthe Oklahoma Statutes, and Section 350.1 of Title 73 of the Oklahoma\n\nStatutes;\n\n2. Subparagraphs b and c of paragraph 1 of subsection B of this\n\nsection; and\n\n3. Subparagraphs a and b of paragraph 2 of subsection B of this\n\nsection,\n\nshall be reduced by a percentage equal to that required of the\n\nGeneral Revenue Fund appropriations to state agencies and such\n\nreductions shall occur during the entire fiscal year and for any\n\nmonth during which such reductions are required by the Office of\n\nManagement and Enterprise Services and by the same percentage as\n\nthat required of the agencies for such General Revenue Fund\n\nappropriations.\n\nF. The Department of Transportation shall use the monies in the\n\nRebuilding Oklahoma Access and Driver Safety Fund for:\n\n1. The construction and maintenance of state roads, bridges,\n\nand highways;\n\n2. The direct expenses of operating and maintaining the state\n\nhighway system, including bridges;\n\n3. Direct expenses incurred in constructing, repairing, and\n\nmaintaining state highways, farm-to-market roads, county highways,\nnsportation shall use the monies in the\n\nRebuilding Oklahoma Access and Driver Safety Fund for:\n\n1. The construction and maintenance of state roads, bridges,\n\nand highways;\n\n2. The direct expenses of operating and maintaining the state\n\nhighway system, including bridges;\n\n3. Direct expenses incurred in constructing, repairing, and\n\nmaintaining state highways, farm-to-market roads, county highways,\n\nand bridges as authorized by law;\n\n4. Matching federal funds;\n\n5. The purchase of materials, tools, machinery, motor vehicles,\n\nand equipment necessary or convenient for the construction and\n\nmaintenance of the state highway system and bridges;\n\n6. Debt service incurred prior to January 1, 2006, for Capital\n\nImprovement Program bonds sold pursuant to Section 2001 of this\n\ntitle; and\n\n7. Debt service incurred on or after July 1, 2009, with respect\n\nto obligations authorized to be issued pursuant to Section 341 of\n\nTitle 73 of the Oklahoma Statutes, Section 350 of Title 73 of the\n\nOklahoma Statutes, and Section 350.1 of Title 73 of the Oklahoma\n\nStatutes.\n\nG. From the monies allocated pursuant to the provisions of\n\nsubparagraph a of paragraph 1 of subsection B of this section each\n\nfiscal year, the Department of Transportation shall make payments\n\nrequired for the payment of principal, interest, and other costs\n\nrelated to the obligations issued by the Oklahoma Capitol\n\nImprovement Authority as authorized by Section 341 of Title 73 of\n\nthe Oklahoma Statutes, Section 350 of Title 73 of the Oklahoma\n\nStatutes, and Section 350.1 of Title 73 of the Oklahoma Statutes,\n\nand such payments shall be made by the Department each fiscal year\n\nbefore such monies are used for any other purpose.\n\nH. For the monies apportioned pursuant to subsection B of this\n\nsection, the Oklahoma Tax Commission shall notify Service Oklahoma\n\nof the amounts apportioned pursuant to Section 500.4B of Title 68 of\n\nthe Oklahoma Statutes and Service Oklahoma shall notify the Oklahoma\n\nTax Commission of the amounts apportioned pursuant to Section 1104\n\nof Title 47 of the Oklahoma Statutes within a period necessary to\n\nallow for such apportionments to be made subject to the limitations\n\nprovided in paragraph 1 of subsection B of this section.","path":["OK Code","Title 69"],"source_url":"https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os69.pdf","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:36Z","sha256":"a8a5465f51004e19a12f50ce1540bdbcf1da7b38c33546f1480423b7a05790ca","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-69-69-1521","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-69-69-1521v2"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. 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