The first Monday in February marks the beginning of the Oklahoma legislative session. And Oklahoma lawmakers are gearing up to consider thousands of bills.
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State budget discussions in the Oklahoma legislature are lagging. As lawmakers discuss the line-item minutiae in their subcommittees and the big-picture priorities alongside the governor, disagreements remain on a handful of key issues and the end of session draws near.
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Gov. Kevin Stitt signed a bill into law intending to reduce Oklahoma’s growing maternal death rate.
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Gov. Kevin Stitt’s signature on House Bill 4156 means Oklahoma joins the handful of other states trying to change the status quo of U.S. immigration enforcement.
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Oklahoma lawmakers have a message for people affected by the tornados that roared through Oklahoma this weekend: help is on the way.
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This Week in Oklahoma Politics panel discusses an audit showing questionable contracts by the Office of Management and Enterprise Services and then-Director Shelley Zumwalt during the pandemic, Gov. Kevin Stitt vetoing a bill to protect victims of domestic abuse and lawmakers sending Stitt a controversial immigration bill.
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Lawmakers sent a bill to Gov. Kevin Stitt’s desk on Wednesday that would require purchases of equipment, products and services by the Office of Management and Enterprise Services to go out for bid.
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Senate Bill 1617 was signed into law by Gov. Kevin Stitt last week. The new act allows municipalities to update and remove illegal discriminatory covenants from existing plats and deems them unlawful, unenforceable and invalid.
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As a crisis continues on the U.S. Southern Border, Oklahoma lawmakers are among counterparts from about a dozen states taking things into their own hands. Their efforts generated backlash from the Latino immigrant community.
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The Oklahoma Senate on Wednesday overrode Gov. Kevin Stitt’s veto of a bill that could have benefited criminal defendants who were also victims.
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Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt signed a bill that joins the state into a licensing compact for physician assistants.
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Gov. Kevin Stitt vetoed a bill that would have added two invasive weeds to Oklahoma's Noxious Weed Law.
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A bill that would prohibit schools from using corporal punishment on children with certain disabilities passed the Oklahoma Senate Tuesday.