Oklahoma Legislature

Sen. Mary Boren

Second Session: Myriad of bills targeting social issues

Thursday, January 27, 2022

OKLAHOMA CITY – The 149 members of the Oklahoma Legislature will face a mountain of legislation when they return to the Capitol for the upcoming session. Following last Thursday’s bill filing deadline about 2,300 new bills and resolutions were filed for the upcoming session.

Sen. Rob Standridge

Legislature: Bill would keep books with sexual themes out of schools

M. Scott Carter Okc Bureau Reporter

Thursday, January 27, 2022

OKLAHOMA CITY – State Senator Rob Standridge said he is worried that public schools are using their resources to indoctrinate students into the gay and lesbian lifestyle.

Sen. Roger Thompson

Legislators to decide fate of $10.3 billion in next session

M. Scott Carter - Capitol Bureau Chief

Thursday, January 13, 2022

OKLAHOMA CITY — With less than a month before the Second Session of the 58th Oklahoma Legislature begins, state lawmakers will have dozens of issues to address this year. The lack of money, however, won’t be one of them.

LEDGER FILE PHOTO BY CHRIS MARTIN

New laws bolster regulation of Rx marijuana, nicotine

Mike W. Ray Staff Writer

Thursday, June 17, 2021

OKLAHOMA CITY – The state Legislature adopted several measures this year that beef up regulation of the burgeoning medical marijuana industry in Oklahoma. Sen.

FILE PHOTO BY BRAYDEN THOMAS Utility poles line NE Jake Dunn Road in Elgin following February’s winter storm in Oklahoma.

Bills would address utility charge spikes from Feb. storm

Mike W. Ray Staff Writer

Thursday, April 15, 2021

OKLAHOMA CITY – Companion measures intended to ease the financial burden facing ratepayers from extreme price spikes in utility and energy bills in the wake of the February winter storm emerged Tuesday from the state Senate and were endorsed Wednesday in a brief meeting of a joint House/Senate...

High utility bills due to frigid temperatures in February.

Legislature considering bond issue to help pay February utility bills

Mike W. Ray Staff Writer

Monday, March 29, 2021

OKLAHOMA CITY – State legislators and government leaders are crafting plans for a bond issue of perhaps $5 billion to provide a pool of funds that would help public utility companies, hospitals, schools, industries and small businesses pay their extraordinary natural-gas bills arising from...

Legislative Service Bureau Photography House Speaker Charles McCall, center, speaks to members of the Oklahoma Legislature before Gov. Kevin Stitt's State of the State address Monday at the Oklahoma Capitol in Oklahoma City.

Reactions to Stitt speech fall along party lines

M. Scott Carter - Capitol Bureau Chief

Thursday, February 4, 2021

OKLAHOMA CITY – Depending on who you asked, Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt’s State of the State speech Monday was either a strong success or a cause for concern. Monday afternoon, Republicans praised the speech and said they appreciated Stitt’s acknowledgment of their work.

Legislative redistricting meetings scheduled

M. Scott Carter - Capitol Bureau Chief

Thursday, November 12, 2020

OKLAHOMA CITY – The Oklahoma House and Senate will host 18 ‘town hall’ meetings about redistricting, beginning in December. Nine of the meetings will be hosted by the House of Representatives and nine by the Oklahoma Senate.

Legislative session ends

M. Scott Carter - Capitol Bureau Chief

Wednesday, May 27, 2020

OKLAHOMA CITY – The second regular session of the 57th Oklahoma Legislature adjourned sine die last Friday, a session historic for its fight between the governor and the legislature, a record number of veto overrides, an ongoing battle against the COVID-19 pandemic and a catastrophic decline in the...

Oklahoma State Capitol

Feisty Oklahoma Legislature Overrides Governor's Vetoes

M. Scott Carter - Capitol Bureau Chief

Wednesday, May 13, 2020

OKLAHOMA CITY – Just hours after Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt vetoed Oklahoma’s $7.7 billion FY21 budget, a feisty Oklahoma Legislature overwhelmingly overrode the governor’s vetoes.

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