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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Below is the state legislative update for March 17-21. HB 3211, which would require OKPromise college students to enroll in 30 credit hours per year is scheduled
to be heard in the Senate Education Committee this morning. The bill has been double-assigned to two Senate Committees – the Senate Education Committee and the Senate Appropriations Committee. It is being heard first in the Senate Education Committee.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Bryce Fair<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="body"></a><span style="color:black">The update below reflects the current status of major legislation concerning Higher Education during the week of March 17, 2014 – March 21, 2014.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">If you have any questions, please contact Hollye Hunt at
</span><a href="mailto:hhunt@osrhe.edu">hhunt@osrhe.edu</a><span style="color:black"> or 405.225.9424.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Legislative Report<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>March 17<sup>th</sup> -March 21<sup>st</sup> <o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u>Tuition <o:p></o:p></u></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>HB 2462</b>// Representative Mike Turner// The legislation permits, beginning with the 2015-2016 academic year, each comprehensive and regional institution within The Oklahoma State System of Higher Education to establish a tuition payback
program. The program shall offer to eligible resident students who are enrolled as a full-time undergraduate an opportunity to enroll in the institution without paying tuition or fees. In lieu of paying tuition and fees, the student shall be required to sign
a binding contract to pay to the institution a certain percentage of the annual federal adjusted gross taxable income of the student upon graduation from the institution for a specified number of years as provided for in the Oklahoma Student Loan Public University
Competition Act. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>UPDATE: The legislation has been assigned to the Senate Education Committee and to the Senate Appropriations Committee.
</b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u>OKPromise <o:p></o:p></u></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="color:black">HB 2778</span></b><span style="color:black">// Representative Jadine Nollan// The legislation requires a student to either repay the tuition for courses or units dropped or limits
the payment of their next OKPromise award. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>UPDATE: The legislation has been assigned to the Senate Education Committee and to the Senate Appropriations Committee.
</b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="color:black">HB 3211</span></b><span style="color:black">// Representative Jeff Hickman and Senator Jim Halligan// The legislation requires an OKPromise student to take 15 credit hours each semester</span><span style="color:#1F497D">
[amended to require students to enroll in 30 credit hours per calendar year]</span><span style="color:black">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>UPDATE: The legislation has been assigned to the Senate Education Committee and to the Senate Appropriations Committee. The legislation is scheduled to be heard in committee on March 24, 2014.
</b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>HB 2644</b>// Representative Steve Kouplen// The legislation eliminates the income requirements of the OKPromise program for students who are in the permanent custody of the Department of Human Services at the time the student enrolls
in the program.<b><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>UPDATE: The legislation has been assigned to the Senate Education Committee and to the Senate Appropriations Committee.
</b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="color:black">No pending legislation.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><u><span style="color:black">Tuition Waivers/ Scholarships
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="color:black">SB 1829</span></b><span style="color:black">// Senator Corey Brooks and Representative Lisa Billy// The legislation allows a student to be eligible for resident tuition if the student
presents to the institution valid documentation of participation in the Air Force Reserve Officers' Training Corps, Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps or the Navy/Marines Reserve Officers' Training Corps.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>UPDATE: The legislation has been assigned to the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Education.</b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="color:black">SB 1223</span></b><span style="color:black">// Senator Frank Simpson// The legislation creates the 9/11 G.I. Bill. The bill allows a one-hundred-percent-disabled veteran of any branch
of the United States Armed Forces, including the United States Army, the United States Navy, the United States Marine Corps, the United States Air Force, the United States Coast Guard or the Oklahoma National Guard, whose injuries were sustained while on active
duty and in the performance of his or her duties and his or her spouse and children, to be entitled to attend any state-supported technology center school operating under the State Board of Career and Technology Education or any institution within The Oklahoma
State System of Higher Education without payment of tuition or fees. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>UPDATE: The legislation has been assigned to the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Education.
<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><u><span style="color:black">Governance/ Board Make-up
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="color:black">No pending legislation.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><u><span style="color:black">Higher Education Shell Bills<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="color:black">No pending legislation.
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><u><span style="color:black">Concurrent Enrollment
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="color:black">No pending legislation.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><u><span style="color:black">Guns on Campus
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="color:black">HJR 1026//
</span></b><span style="color:black">Representative Dan Fisher and Senator Greg Treat// The joint resolution affirms that it is the fundamental right of each individual citizen to keep and to bear arms. It restricts the state from imposing laws on licensure,
registration or special taxation on the acquisition, ownership or possession of arms, ammunition, or the components of arms or ammunition.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="color:black">UPDATE: The legislation has been assigned to the Senate Rules Committee.
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="color:black">HB 2887</span></b><span style="color:black">// Representative John Enns and Senator AJ Griffin// The legislation allows a college or university to establish a policy for the general
public in lieu of written permission to each individual licensee. A college or university that provides written consent for an individual or provides a policy that allows a concealed or unconcealed weapon on property is immune from liability arising from
that decision. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>UPDATE: The legislation has been assigned to the Senate Public Safety Committee.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><u><span style="color:black">Administrative Procedures Act<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="color:black">SB 1694</span></b><span style="color:black">// Senator Eddie Fields and Representative Harold Wright// The legislation eliminates language regarding the expulsion of a student.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>UPDATE: The legislation has been assigned to the House Higher Education Committee.
</b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><u><span style="color:black">Accreditation
<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="color:black">No pending legislation.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><u><span style="color:black">Teacher Prep
<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="color:black">HB 2885</span></b><span style="color:black">// Representative Ann Coody// The legislation directs the Oklahoma Commission for Teacher Preparation to work with the Oklahoma State
Regents for Higher Education and the various institutions of higher education to establish a paid teacher internship program at each institution for prospective teachers. The purpose of each program shall be to provide mentorship and support for prospective
teachers. Students enrolled in a teacher education program and students enrolled in an alternative placement program shall be eligible to participate in the program.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>UPDATE: The legislation has been assigned to the Senate Education Committee and to the Senate Appropriations Committee.
<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><u><span style="color:black">Pension/ Retirement<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="color:black">HB 2611</span></b><span style="color:black">// Representative Randy McDaniel// The legislation amends the definition section of “regular annual compensation” to exclude clinical related
activity performed in Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences (OSU-CHS) Professional Practice Plan.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="color:black">UPDATE: The legislation has been assigned to the Senate Pensions Committee.
</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><u><span style="color:black">Open Records
<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="color:black">SB 1577</span></b><span style="color:black">// Senator Sean Burrage// The legislation creates an exemption to the Open Records Act. It allows higher education institutions to keep
confidential 1) business plans, feasibility studies, financing proposals, marketing plans, financial statements or trade secrets submitted by a person or entity seeking economic advice, business development or customized training from such Departments or
school districts, and 2) proprietary information of the business submitted to the Department or school districts for the purpose of business
</span>development or customized training, and related confidentiality agreements detailing the information or records designated as
<span style="color:black">confidential, and 3) information compiled by such Departments or school districts in response to those submissions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="color:black">UPDATE:
</span>The legislation has been assigned to the House Higher Education Committee.<span style="color:black">
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><u><span style="color:black">Task Forces/ Advisory Committees<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>SB1181 // </b>Senator Ron Sharp and Representative Justin Wood// The legislation establishes criteria for designation as a STEM Community or STEM Region. The application process shall be outlined by a subcommittee of an existing STEM
education or workforce committee or board, to be identified by the Governor. The creation, sustainment and execution of the subcommittee shall be the responsibility of the Coalition for the Advancement of Science and Mathematics Education in Oklahoma (CASMEO).
The application process shall be based on criteria established by the subcommittee. The criteria for designation as a STEM Community or STEM<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Region shall include a requirement that educators, administrators, business leaders, students, parents, government officials and business and industry groups within a community or region create awareness, promote partnerships with education
and industry, develop and execute action plans for improving STEM education and training, identify and acquire the needed resources to improve STEM education and training and identify and accumulate STEM data within the community or region, including but not
limited to kindergarten through twelfth grade test results, the number of STEM-related degree holders in the local workforce, the number of STEM-related<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">degrees conferred and the number of STEM-related certifications or credentials obtained. The region or community shall also develop a plan to recognize and promote successes in both student and teacher accomplishments in the STEM area
within the community or region.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>UPDATE: The legislation has been assigned to the House Common Education Committee.
<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><u><span style="color:black">Athletics<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="color:black">No pending legislation.
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><u><span style="color:black">Veterans/Military
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="color:black">SB 1830</span></b><span style="color:black">// Senator Corey Brooks and Representative Gary Banz// The legislation allows men and women who are enrolled at a higher education institution
and are in the active uniformed military services to take a leave of absence if called into active duty. If an institution within The Oklahoma State System of Higher Education fails to comply with the provisions of this act, the student may bring an action
in district court for actual and compensatory damages for noncompliance and may be granted such relief as is just and proper under the circumstances.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>UPDATE: The legislation has been assigned to the House Higher Education Committee.</b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black"> <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><u><span style="color:black">Other<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="color:black">SB 1505</span></b><span style="color:black">// Senator David Holt and Representative Leslie Osborn// The legislation authorizes
</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:black">state agencies, at their discretion, to offer their employees an option to voluntarily elect to be paid, one time annually, for a certain number of hours of unused accrued annual leave. This policy will be optional
for all eligible employees, and the employee may choose the monthly pay period in which he or she elects to receive such payment.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:black">SB 1966</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:black">// Senator Anthony Sykes and Representative Jon Echols//<b>
</b>The legislation requires Commissioners of the Land Office to employ only the Office of the Attorney General of Oklahoma in all matters. It also provides that funds that are not paid prior to certain time limits be calculated at a different rate of interest.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt">UPDATE:<span style="color:black"> The legislation has been assigned to the House Appropriations and Budget Committee.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt">HB 2669// </span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt">Representative David Derby// The legislation creates the Information Technology Act of 2014. The legislation state that unless a state agency has internal
expertise to conduct the risk assessment and can submit certification of such expertise along with the annual information security risk assessment, the risk assessment shall be conducted by a third party. The Information Services Division of the Office of
Management and Enterprise Services shall approve not less than two third-party firms which state agencies may choose from to conduct the information security risk assessment. A state agency with an information technology system that is not consolidated under
the Information Technology Consolidation and Coordination Act or that is otherwise retained by the agency shall submit a final report of information security risk assessment to the Information Services Division by the first day of December of each year.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>HB 2873</b>// Representative Tom Newell and Senator Greg Treat// The legislation requires institutions of higher education not to take action or enforce a policy that would deny a religious student association any benefit available to
any other student association. In addition, no higher education institution may substantially burden a student’s exercise of religion.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>SB 2080</b>// Senator Nathan Dahm and Representative Jon Echols// The legislation creates the “Memorandum of Understanding Act. The act requires agencies to post on a website and provide copies to appropriate legislative committee chairs
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>SB 1639</b>// Senator Brian Bingman and Representative Elise Hall// The legislation creates the Quality Workforce Act. This act allows businesses that receive approval from the Oklahoma Department of Commerce to receive tax rebates
if they pay for an employee to receive their <span style="font-size:11.5pt">associate degree, an industrial or vocational license or to complete a certification program.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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