Public finance; Defending the Integrity of the Appropriations Process and the Verbal Earmarks Transparency Act of 2025; effective date.

HB 1351 requires state agencies to submit detailed annual budgets by June 1, including quarterly spending breakdowns, organizational charts, and mission statements, and mandates agency leaders to certify compliance with budgeting rules. It also creates a transparency requirement: agency leaders must report within 72 hours any suggestion from a legislator (or their staff) about how state funds should be spent - including the time, nature of the suggestion, and the legislator’s identity - to the State Ethics Commission and post it online. These provisions apply to most state agencies, excluding CompSource Oklahoma under a specific pilot program, and take effect on November 1, 2025. The bill aims to increase accountability in budget decisions by making verbal funding requests publicly visible.