Tourism; increasing apportionment to Tourism funds; removing apportionment cap; limiting funds for operations; eliminating prohibition to spend certain funds on salaries; effective date; emergency.

HB 1572 modifies Oklahoma's sales tax revenue allocation for tourism programs. It removes a previous cap on tourism funding (previously limited to $5 million annually for promotion), allows funds to be used for salaries (previously prohibited), and establishes new annual limits: $5 million for tourism promotion, $9 million for capital improvements, and $6.6 million for Route 66 projects. These changes apply to the Oklahoma Tourism Promotion Revolving Fund, Oklahoma Tourism Capital Improvement Revolving Fund, and Oklahoma Route 66 Commission Revolving Fund. The bill directly affects these tourism agencies by altering how they receive and can spend sales tax revenue.