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Committee advances bill letting state use NIST‑certified labs instead of NIST itself to certify testing equipment
Summary
HB 1542 would allow the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry to use a qualified laboratory certified by NIST instead of sending equipment to NIST for certification; the committee passed the bill unanimously after department testimony on cost savings.
House Bill 1542, a departmental-request bill from the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry (ODAFF), passed the Agriculture Committee and would change statute to let the department use a qualified laboratory — rather than the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) directly — to certify testing equipment used in the state’s weights and measures program.
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