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Committee clears bill to restructure Oklahoma Manufacturing Alliance board
Summary
The Government Oversight Committee voted to recommend House Bill 1376, a request from the Oklahoma Manufacturing Alliance to change its statutory board structure to increase industry representation, citing a federal funder requirement; committee vote was 12-0.
The Government Oversight Committee recommended House Bill 1376 for passage after Representative Boles presented the measure on behalf of the Oklahoma Manufacturing Alliance.
The bill would change the alliance’s board structure in statute to add more representation from the manufacturing industry, a change Boles said was required by the alliance’s federal funder to remain compliant with the terms of those federal dollars. “This bill will help restructure their board in statute,” Representative Boles said during the committee meeting.
Boles told the committee the alliance does not receive state funds directly but receives matching support tied to state-administered programs: “They get funding from us through the Department of Commerce and then also through OCAST,” he said. He described a 1-to-1 match tied to the federal Manufacturing Extension Partnership program and said, in the event the alliance lost the federal funding, state policymakers would have to decide whether to backfill lost resources.
Committee members asked no substantive follow-up questions, and the clerk recorded the vote as 12 ayes and 0 nays. The chair announced the committee’s recommendation of “do pass.”
The committee record does not list further details about the statutory language, any fiscal impact estimate, or the specific federal requirement cited beyond the presenter’s description. The bill will continue through the legislative process with the committee’s recommendation.
