§75-308.3. Joint resolution of the Legislature.
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A. The Legislature shall have joint resolutions prepared for consideration each session.
B. For the purpose of this section, a proposed permanent rule may be disapproved, in whole or in part, in a joint resolution considered by the Legislature.
C. If any rule received on or before the date established pursuant to paragraph 1 of subsection A of Section 308 of this title
is not subject to a joint resolution passed by both houses of the Legislature and signed by the Governor or is found by the Governor to have a technical legal defect preventing approval of administrative rules intended to be approved by the Legislature, the Governor may declare any rules received on or before February 1 and not subject to a joint resolution passed by both houses of the Legislature to be approved or disapproved and finally adopted by publishing a single declaration in "The Oklahoma Register" on or before July 17.
If the Governor finds that the joint resolution has a technical legal defect, the Governor shall make the finding in writing and submit the finding to the Legislature. Added by Laws 2013, c. 357, § 6, eff. Nov. 1, 2013. Amended by Laws 2021, c. 11, § 14, eff. Sept. 1, 2021; Laws 2023, c. 38, § 6, emerg. eff. April 20, 2023; Laws 2025, c. 126, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2025. NOTE: Laws 2023, c. 38, § 6 was purportedly repealed by Laws 2025, c. 420, § 3 but without reference to Laws 2025, c. 126, § 1, which amended it.