Oklahoma Administrative Code › Title 1 - EXECUTIVE ORDERS › Section 1:2020-3

Current through Vol. 41, No. 20, July 1, 2024
Executive Order 2020-3
The public has a right to a concise and easily understood
			 overview of the tangible impacts, costs and benefits of any proposed state
			 agency rule. However, the 2019 Oklahoma Administrative Code contains 16,430
			 pages, roughly 35,000 active sections 
			 1, 145,296 restrictive phrases and 9.3
			 million words. That would take an individual about 515 hours - or almost 13
			 forty hour work weeks - to read.
Accountability, transparency and efficiency have been critical
			 principles of my administration since taking office in January of 2019.
			 Furthermore, I believe it is in the best interests of the State, its
			 government, and its citizens to reduce regulatory burden whenever and wherever
			 possible, while continuing to protect public health and public safety.
Therefore, I, J. Kevin Stitt, Governor of the State of Oklahoma,
			 by the authority vested in me pursuant to Sections 1 and 2 of Article VI of the
			 Oklahoma Constitution, hereby direct and order as follows:
1. All "state agencies," as defined by 75
		  O.S. § 250.3, are to undertake a critical and comprehensive review of the
		  agency's administrative rules to identify costly, ineffective, duplicative, and
		  outdated regulations, and to issue a report thereon. The report shall include a
		  list of all unnecessary regulatory restrictions and all other costly,
		  ineffective, unnecessary, and outdated regulations. The report of each agency's
		  findings shall be submitted to the Governor, the President Pro Tempore of the
		  Oklahoma Senate and the Speaker of the Oklahoma House of Representatives on or
		  before August 1, 2020.
2. Unless
		  prohibited by law, whenever an agency proposes one (1) new regulatory
		  restriction through the permanent rulemaking process, it shall identify at
		  least two (2) existing regulatory restrictions to be revoked (1-in-2-out) until
		  the total number of regulatory restrictions is 25% percent below the regulatory
		  baseline. For purposes of this executive order, a regulatory restriction is any
		  agency rule that includes the words "shall," "must," "require," "shall not,"
		  "may not," and "prohibit." The 1-in-2-out requirement shall take effect for any
		  permanent rules proposed after February 15, 2020.
3.  The Secretary of State shall produce an
		  annual report on or before December 31 each year to the Governor's office
		  outlining progress made in eliminating burdensome regulations and streamlining
		  state government.
Copies of this Executive Order shall be distributed to all
			 members of the Governor's Executive Cabinet and the chief executives of all
			 state agencies, who shall cause the provisions of this Order to be
			 implemented.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the
			 Great Seal of the State of Oklahoma to be affixed at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma,
			 this 3rd day of February, 2020.
BY THE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA
J. Kevin Stitt
ATTEST:
Michael Rogers
Secretary of State
1 Active sections may also be referred
			 to as "Regulatory baseline" herein