Oklahoma lawmakers will consider thousands of bills over the coming months.
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Jamie Glisson/The Oklahoma House of Representatives moved to ban classroom instruction on sexual orientation or gender identity Tuesday with the passage of a bill that uses nearly identical language to Florida’s so-called “Don’t Say Gay” Bill. -
Paul Monies/Oklahoma WatchOklahoma lawmakers spent last summer vetting hundreds of applications for funding from the latest round of federal coronavirus relief and allocated more than $1.6 billion in the fall. But some are frustrated with the executive branch’s slow pace of sending the money to agencies and other grantees.
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Oklahoma has one of the highest rates of female incarceration in the nation and in the world. One proposed bill could help address the issue. -
House Speaker Charles McCall said the differences between the treatment of felony-indicted Republicans and Turner are a matter of time and place. Turner’s Democratic colleagues see a double standard.
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The American Academy of Pediatrics advises against the practice.
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Recent pushes from the state legislature to target queer issues in schools and medicine have mobilized 2SLGBTQ+ Oklahomans, and the Transgender Action Choir is lifting their voices to speak up.
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Eastern redcedars are spreading across Oklahoma and slurping up billions of gallons of water each day. New legislation at the Oklahoma Capitol aims to do something about that.
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Ardmore Representative Tammy Townley was hunting feral hogs along the banks of the Red River when the helicopter she was riding in went down.
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Oklahoma legislators are again considering a bill that would allow medical researchers to look into psychedelics to treat mental illness.
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Oklahoma City Representative Mauree Turner is the target of attacks on their race, gender and religion following a move earlier this week by House Republicans to formally censure the Democratic lawmaker.
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This Week in Oklahoma Politics discuss the results of the State Question 820 vote, House Republicans censuring the state's openly non-binary lawmaker, Oklahoma City Democratic Representative Mauree Turner, and more.
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Oklahoma House Republicans removed Rep. Mauree Turner (D-Oklahoma City) Tuesday from all committee assignments, alleging Turner “harbored a fugitive” in their office last week following an incident involving a Highway Patrol trooper and transgender people attending a bill hearing.
