Section 30.7 - Oklahoma Opioid Abatement BoardA. There is hereby created the Oklahoma Opioid Abatement Board which shall consist of the following nine (9) members:1. One member appointed by the Governor;2. One member appointed by the State Auditor and Inspector;3. One member appointed by the State Treasurer;4. The Attorney General of the State of Oklahoma, or his or her designee, who shall serve as an ex officio member of the Board but who shall be entitled to vote only in case of a tie vote;5. One member appointed by the State Superintendent of Public Instruction;6. Two members appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives; and7. Two members appointed by the President Pro Tempore of the Senate.B. Each member shall serve at the pleasure of his or her appointing authority and may be removed or replaced without cause. Any member of the Board shall be prohibited from voting on any issue in which the member has a direct or indirect financial interest.C. The Board shall have the following powers and duties:1. Develop and implement procedures for the disbursement of opioid grant awards to eligible participants, to be used by eligible participants to fund and reimburse costs related to approved purposes. The Board may elect to disburse opioid grant awards to eligible participants in multiple allocations;2. Develop and implement opioid grant application, submission and evaluation procedures as required to implement the provisions of this act;3. Develop and implement an appeals process for eligible participants to contest opioid grant application denials and denials of specific fund use requests contained in submitted applications;4. Maintain oversight over the expenditure of opioid grant awards to ensure grant proceeds are used exclusively for approved purposes; and5. Suspend allocations of opioid grant awards to eligible participants found by the Board to be out of compliance with Board procedures or to have utilized such awards for nonapproved purposes; provided that the Board shall resume such allocations once the Board has determined the eligible participant has adequately remedied the cause of such suspension.D. No opioid grant awarded pursuant to the provisions of this act shall be utilized or expended by a political subdivision, unless such utilization or expenditure is memorialized in a resolution or equivalent government action adopted by the political subdivision and submitted to the Board.E. No opioid grant awarded pursuant to the provisions of this act shall include funds from the Purdue Political Subdivisions Fund unless the Board shall have first received a release of claims as required by the Purdue Settlement Agreement on a form approved by the Attorney General.F. The Office of the Attorney General shall provide staff and administrative support to the Oklahoma Opioid Abatement Board.G. The Office of the Attorney General shall promulgate rules necessary to implement the provisions of this act; provided that the Office of the Attorney General shall only promulgate such rules as requested or approved by the Board.Okla. Stat. tit. 74, § 30.7
Added by Laws 2020, c. 130,s. 5, eff. 8/27/2020.