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<DIV><SPAN class=571381619-05022003><FONT size=2>Please see the correspondence
from Lesa Borin, the legislative analyst, who is working to get authors and help
promote the "Best Practices Recommendations." Lesa is urging the Business
Officers to call the members (listed below) and talk to them on the importance
of voting for Bills SB247 and SB453. These bills will be the vehicles used
to address the recommendations from the Best Practices Committee.
Please make the time to talk with your President and other legislative
liaisons and discuss these issues and how they will benefit Higher
Education. <U>The timeframe is short, the bills are to be heard on Monday,
February 17th, so please make this a priority and help to get these bills passed
from committee.</U></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=571381619-05022003><FONT size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=571381619-05022003><FONT size=2>A memo is also being sent to
the Presidents asking their help in communicating to the members that these are
ways of helping Higher Education be more efficient. In light of the
budgetary situation, passing these bills is a practical way of helping
the State System without costing additional appropriations.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=571381619-05022003><FONT size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=571381619-05022003><FONT size=2>The issues that will be
addressed include the following four topics:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=571381619-05022003><FONT size=2>1) amended definition of public
construction contract and amended requirement for submitting of bid bond; 2)
sales tax exemption for tickets of athletic events and using funds for Title IX;
3) contracting with no less than two travel agencies, and 4) allowing postage
stamps to be used in research projects and increasing the limitation on the
purchase of stamps.</FONT> </SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=571381619-05022003><FONT size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=571381619-05022003><FONT size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Borin, Lesa <BR><B>Sent:</B>
Wednesday, February 05, 2003 1:06 PM<BR><B>To:</B> Maletz, Maryanne; Mauck,
Sheri<BR><B>Cc:</B> Hudson, Sid; Fair, Bryce<BR><B>Subject:</B> SB247 and SB453
(Committee Sub)<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=955191918-05022003>FYI - . . .we've got a lot of work to
do.</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=955191918-05022003><FONT size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=955191918-05022003>Both SB247 (Robinson) "Postage Stamp
Bill" and SB453 (Morgan) "Direct Deposit Bill" have been assigned to
the Senate General Government Committee which is chaired by Senator Crutchfield
and the vice-chair in Senator Corn. The chair makes the decision on
whether or not to hear a bill in his/her committee.</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=955191918-05022003><FONT size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=955191918-05022003>After meeting with Senator Morgan yesterday
afternoon, he has agreed to remain at the author of SB453 a.k.a. "The Direct
Deposit Bill". <SPAN class=955191918-05022003>The plan is to strike the
title, which will keep it alive and allow us a vehicle in which to put the
sections of the law that will need to be repealed, but will also allow the
committee to amend the bill and remove sections of it that
can't be passed.<BR></SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=955191918-05022003>Before it is heard in committee, Morgan
is going to release a committee substitute which will contain the language
for the following COBO issues: 1) amended definition of public
construction contract and amended requirement for submitting of bid bond; 2)
sales tax exemption for tickets of athletic events and using funds for Title IX;
3) contracting with no less than two travel agencies. A copy of the
committee sub will not be available until Friday afternoon at the
earliest. </SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=955191918-05022003><FONT size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=955191918-05022003>After speaking again with Selden and
providing him the language for SB453, he told me that the postage stamp language
had in fact been put in SB247 by Robinson. </SPAN><SPAN
class=955191918-05022003>The full text of the bill may be viewed at <A
href="http://www.lsb.state.ok.us/2003-04SB/SB247_int.rtf">http://www.lsb.state.ok.us/2003-04SB/SB247_int.rtf</SPAN><SPAN
class=955191918-05022003></SPAN></A></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=955191918-05022003></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=955191918-05022003>Now for the work. Both SB247 and 453
will be heard in General Government on Monday, February 17, 2003. The
meeting will be held in Room 534 at 9:30 a.m., which means we have about one
week to get these bills lobbied. <U>All COBO members need to contact their
representatives which serve on the committee. They need to explain the
bill, explain what it does, etc. Since the COBO meeting has been
cancelled, this task will be more difficult because we won't get to brief them
in person, but I trust that you can stress to them the importance of calling
their representatives and asking them to vote yes. </U></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=955191918-05022003><FONT size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=955191918-05022003>Below is the list of the committee. By
clicking on their names, you can link directly to their individual pages which
contains a map of their district. They ALL need to be called, regardless
of whether or not they have a college/university in their district.</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=955191918-05022003></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=955191918-05022003>Please contact me if you have any
questions. I will be mostly at the Capitol during the next two days.
You can reach me at 659.6552.</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=955191918-05022003></SPAN> </DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=+1><B>GENERAL GOVERNMENT</B></FONT> </DIV>
<P>
<P><FONT face=Arial><A
href="http://www.lsb.state.ok.us/senate/senators/price_bio.html"><FONT
size=2>Sen. Johnnie Crutchfield</FONT></A><FONT size=2>, Chair<FONT
face="Times New Roman"><SPAN class=571381619-05022003> </SPAN><SPAN
class=571381619-05022003> </SPAN></FONT><BR></FONT><A
href="http://www.lsb.state.ok.us/senate/senators/corn_bio.html"><FONT
size=2>Sen. Kenneth Corn</FONT></A><FONT size=2>, Vice Chair<BR></FONT><A
href="http://www.lsb.state.ok.us/senate/senators/aldridge_bio.html"><FONT
size=2>Sen. Cliff Aldridge</FONT></A><BR><A
href="http://www.lsb.state.ok.us/senate/senators/branan_bio.html"><FONT
size=2>Sen. Cliff Branan</FONT></A><BR></FONT><A
href="http://www.lsb.state.ok.us/senate/senators/capps_bio.html"><FONT
face=Arial size=2>Sen. Gilmer Capps</FONT></A><FONT face=Arial><BR></FONT><A
href="http://www.lsb.state.ok.us/senate/senators/dunlap_bio.html"><FONT
face=Arial size=2>Sen. James Dunlap</FONT></A><FONT face=Arial><BR></FONT><A
href="http://www.lsb.state.ok.us/senate/senators/helton_bio.html"><FONT
face=Arial size=2>Sen. Sam Helton</FONT></A><FONT face=Arial><BR></FONT><A
href="http://www.lsb.state.ok.us/senate/senators/laughlin_bio.html"><FONT
face=Arial size=2>Sen. Owen Laughlin</FONT></A><FONT face=Arial><BR></FONT><A
href="http://www.lsb.state.ok.us/senate/senators/littlefield_bio.html"><FONT
face=Arial size=2>Sen. Rick Littlefield</FONT></A><FONT face=Arial><BR><A
href="http://www.lsb.state.ok.us/senate/senators/maddox_bio.html"><FONT
face=Arial size=2>Sen. James Maddox</FONT></A><FONT size=2> <BR></FONT><A
href="http://www.lsb.state.ok.us/senate/senators/nichols_bio.html"><FONT
size=2>Sen. Jonathan Nichols</FONT></A><BR></FONT><A
href="http://www.lsb.state.ok.us/senate/senators/price_bio.html"><FONT
face=Arial size=2>Sen. Bruce Price</FONT></A><FONT face=Arial><BR><A
href="http://www.lsb.state.ok.us/senate/senators/reynolds_bio.html"><FONT
size=2>Sen. Jim Reynolds</FONT></A><FONT size=2> <BR></FONT></FONT><A
href="http://www.lsb.state.ok.us/senate/senators/smith_bio.html"><FONT
face=Arial size=2>Sen. Jerry Smith</FONT></A><FONT face=Arial><BR></FONT><A
href="http://www.lsb.state.ok.us/senate/senators/wilkerson_bio.html"><FONT
face=Arial size=2>Sen. Dick Wilkerson</FONT></A></P> </SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Garamond color=#800000><EM>Lesa K. Jolly-Borin</EM></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Garamond color=#800000 size=2>Legislative Analyst</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Garamond color=#800000 size=2>Oklahoma State Regents for Higher
Education</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Garamond color=#800000 size=2>655 Research Parkway, Suite
200</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Garamond color=#800000 size=2>Oklahoma City, OK
73101</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Garamond color=#800000 size=2>405.225.9134 - FAX
405.225.9230</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><A href="mailto:lborin@osrhe.edu"><FONT face=Garamond color=#800000
size=2>lborin@osrhe.edu</FONT></A></DIV>
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