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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">*Sent on behalf of Bryce Fair*<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Following is the first update for the 2019 legislative session. This initial list has a lot of bills on it. A few related to financial aid include:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:#1F497D">There are five bills related to OKPromise shown in the “Oklahoma’s Promise” section.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:#1F497D">Other bills located in different sections include:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">o<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:#1F497D">SB 211 – a tuition waiver for disabled veterans<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">o<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:#1F497D">SB 464 – a tuition waiver for children of members of the Oklahoma Teachers Retirement System (OTRS)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">o<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:#1F497D">HB 2261 – a teacher incentive scholarship<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">o<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:#1F497D">HB 2521 – a teacher loan repayment program<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo4"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol;color:#1F497D"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:#1F497D">You will see a couple of bills that refer to the Oklahoma Equal Opportunity Education Scholarship, but this scholarship is for K-12 students, not college/postsecondary students.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Remember you can look up the text and other information on any bill by typing the bill # in at
<a href="http://www.oklegislature.gov/BasicSearchForm.aspx">http://www.oklegislature.gov/BasicSearchForm.aspx</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Bryce Fair<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">OKLAHOMA STATE REGENTS FOR HIGHER EDUCATION<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><b>To: <a name="to1">
</a>Chancellor’s Council<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><b>From: </b> <a name="from">
</a>Chancellor Glen D. Johnson<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><b>Date: </b> <a name="datea">
</a>Friday, February 1, 2019<o:p></o:p></p>
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<b>Subject:</b> <a name="re"></a>Legislative Update – February 1, 2019<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="BodyA"><a name="body"></a><span lang="DE">The update below reflects the current status of major legislation concerning Higher Education during the week of January 28, 2019 – February 1, 2019.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">If you have any questions, please contact LeeAnna McNally at
<a href="mailto:lmcnally@osrhe.edu">lmcnally@osrhe.edu</a> or (405) 225-9424.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Legislative Report <o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>February 1, 2019<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Agency Administration</span></u></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 1 (Senator Greg Treat) </b>Creates the Legislative Office of Fiscal Transparency (LOFT), a 12-member committee to conduct performance evaluations of executive branch agencies, or programs, activities or functions within executive
branch agencies identified by the committee. The bill requires each agency or institution, upon request, to furnish and make available to the Legislative Office of Fiscal Transparency all records, documents, materials, personnel, information or other resources
deemed necessary.<br>
<b><u>Update:</u></b><u> Assigned to Senate Appropriations Committee.</u><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 90 (Senator Adam Pugh) </b>Extends the sunset date for the State Accrediting Agency to July 1, 2024.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update:</u></b><u> Assigned to Senate General Government Committee.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 93 (Senator Adam Pugh) </b>Requires state agency itemized budget requests, beginning with FY2020 and every four years thereafter, to justify every dollar requested, including the base appropriation amount, as well as any
additional funds requested for the ensuing fiscal year.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update:</u></b><u> Assigned to Senate Appropriations Committee.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 117 (Senator Gary Stanislawski) </b>Appropriates $4 million to the Oklahoma Employment Security Administration Fund out of funds made available to this state by the federal Unemployment Compensation Modernization Transfer.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update: </u></b><u>Assigned to Senate Appropriations Committee.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 121 (Senator Julia Kirt) </b>Creates a state shared leave program.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><u>Update: </u></b><u>Assigned to Senate General Government Committee then to Senate Appropriations Committee.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 122 (Senator Gary Stanislawski) </b>Removes the requirement that all requests for additional office space for a state agency shall be submitted and reviewed by the State Governmental Technology Applications Review Board.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><b><u>Update: </u></b><u>Assigned to Senate General Government Committee.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 124 (Senator Larry Boggs)</b> Requires annual audit of all state agency revolving funds.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update: </u></b><u>Assigned to Senate Appropriations Committee.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 127 (Senator Micheal Bergstrom) </b>Requires state agencies appropriated more than $75 million to present measures to allocate funds appropriately.
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<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to Senate Appropriations<b> </b>Committee.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 128 (Senator Bill Coleman)</b> Authorizes state agencies to pay employees for the periods of time when the employee is off work premises but required to remain at, near or able to return to work when called upon.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update: </u></b><u>Assigned to Senate General Government Committtee.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 161 (Senator Rob Standridge)</b> Creates the Right Side Up Government Act of 2019. Moves 70% of legislative liaison salaries and 100% of the cost of registered executive or legislative lobbyists that are under contract with
or otherwise compensated by any appropriated state agency to the Legislative Office of Fiscal Transparency (LOFT) created by
<b>SB 1. </b>The bill requires that the process of moving employees not result in any net gain in full-time equivalent employees.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update: </u></b><u>Assigned to Senate Rules Committee.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 177 (Senator Ron Sharp) </b>Requires all state agencies to make available on their website, or on a general website if a state agency uses a general website, each fiscal year, a balance sheet and statement of revenues, expenditures
and changes in fund balances.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update: </u></b><u>Assigned to Senate General Government Committee.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 191 (Senator Rob Standridge) </b>Creates the Oklahoma Workforce and Economic Development Act. The bill creates the Oklahoma Office of Workforce Development as a division of the Department of Labor, beginning July 1, 2020,
and continuing until July 1, 2026, to administer federal grant funding allocations from the federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act and other federal grants and sources of funding relating to state workforce development programs.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to Senate Business, Commerce and Tourism Committee then to Senate Appropriations Committee.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 198 (Senator Rob Standridge) </b>Requires all state agencies and all political subdivisions to adopt a social networking and social media policy that applies to the personal use of social media by state employees and employees
of any political subdivision to discourage abusive or offensive online behavior.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update: </u></b><u>Assigned to Senate General Government Committee.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 209 (Senator Stephanie Bice)</b> Requires that the Division of Central Accounting and Reporting establish a mandatory training program for state financial managers.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update: </u></b><u>Assigned to Senate Appropriations Committee.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 210 (Senator Roger Thompson and Senator Wayne Shaw)
</b>Creates the<b> </b>Pay for Success Act, which allows pay-for-success for agency contracts.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b> <u>Update: </u></b><u>Assigned to Senate Appropriations Committee.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 214 (Senator Larry Boggs)</b> Requires the positions of the Executive Director of the Office of Juvenile Affairs, Commissioner of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services, Director of Corrections, Administrator of the Oklahoma
Health Care Authority, Director of the Department of Transportation, and the Director of the Oklahoma Department of Career and Technology Education be gubernatorial appointments, contingent upon Senate approval.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update: </u></b><u>Assigned to Senate Rules Committee.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 227 (Senator Roger Thompson) </b>Creates the Oklahoma Information Services Department Act. The bill creates the Oklahoma Information Services Department, into which the Office of Management and Enterprise Services Information
Services Division will be consolidated. Higher Education is exempt.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b> <u>Update: </u></b><u>Assigned to Senate Appropriations Committee.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 240 (Senator Rob Standridge) </b>Requires the State Travel Office to give preference to travel agencies located within Oklahoma.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update: </u></b><u>Assigned to Senate General Government Committee.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 247 (Senator Ron Sharp) </b>Requires that no increase in salary for state agency heads will commence until such increase has been approved according to requirements established by the bill. It requires the board or commission
overseeing an agency to submit proposed salary increases for state agency heads to the subcommittee of the Senate Appropriations Committee and the House Appropriations and Budget Committee under whose jurisdiction the state agency resides.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update: </u></b><u>Assigned to Senate Appropriations Committee.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 263 (Senator Nathan Dahm) </b>Requires state agencies to publish their exempt rules on their website. The bill modifies the deadline for agencies to respond to requests from the governor, the Legislature and small businesses
to review certain rules. It reduces the deadline to 30 days for requests from the governor and the Legislature and implements a 90-day deadline for small business requests.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update: </u></b><u>Assigned to Senate Rules Committee.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 270 (Senator Julie Daniels) </b>Permits the governor to remove any gubernatorially appointed officer or appointments on any agency, board or commission. It exempts appointments to any agency, board or commission if the appointing
authority is provided for in the Constitution. It requires vacancies created by the removal of an appointee to be filled as provided by law.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update: </u></b><u>Assigned to Senate Rules Committee.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 271 (Senator Nathan Dahm) </b>Requires all agencies to make an annual disclosure in a separate written report and information on websites maintained by or on behalf of the entities of all federal funds under the control of
the entity and the programs for which the federal funds are used by distinct expenditure categories.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update: </u></b><u>Assigned to Senate Appropriations Committee.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 306 (Senator Adam Pugh)</b> Requires state agencies to provide advance notice to the State Treasurer of all disbursements that could negatively impact state cash flow requirements. It requires daily total submissions for
disbursement equal to or in excess of $25 million to be deemed to have the potential to negatively impact state cash flow.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update: </u></b><u>Assigned to Senate Finance Committee.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 315 (Senator Nathan Dahm) </b>Requires the Chief Information Officer to maintain a website for all open meeting agendas for state agencies.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update: </u></b><u>Assigned to Senate General Government Committee.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 316 (Senator Nathan Dahm)</b> Creates the Government Transparency Act. It requires a state agency entering into a Memorandum of Understanding or Memorandum of Agreement with any agency, department or any organization receiving
appropriated money, grants, or contracts from the State of Oklahoma or any other state or funds from the government of the United States to publish a report on its website and the website, documents.ok.gov.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update: </u></b><u>Assigned to Senate General Government Committee.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 326 (Senator Nathan Dahm)</b> During each regular session of the Legislature, any member may request, by proper passage of a resolution introduced by either the Senate or the House of Representatives, a statement of legal
authority for a specific facet of operations of the agency.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b>Update: </b>Assigned to Senate Rules Committee.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 329 (Senator Nathan Dahm) </b>Upon receipt by a state agency of a requirement for an agency to adopt, that agency shall send the federal rule or regulation by electronic mail to the President Pro Tempore of the Senate, the
Speaker of the House of Representatives, and the Governor.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b>Update: </b>Assigned to Senate Rules Committee.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 342 (Senator Nathan Dahm)</b> No state agency shall use any state funding available, including but not limited to state appropriations, to employ a number of full-time-equivalent employees in excess of the number of full-time-equivalent
state-funded employees actually employed by such agency on January 1, 2019.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b> Update: </b>Assigned to Senate Appropriations Committee.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 343 (Senator Casey Murdock)</b> Gives the Governor appointing power over the agency head of the Department of Environmental Quality, Alcoholic Beverage Laws Enforcement Commission, the Department of Mental Health and Substance
Abuse Services, the Pardon and Parole Board, the Department of Corrections, the State Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Control, the Oklahoma Health Care Authority, the Department of Transportation, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Oklahoma State
Bureau of Investigation, and the Oklahoma Water Resources Board. The act states the Governor must make these appointments with the advice and consent of the Senate.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b> <u>Update: </u></b><u>Assigned to Senate Rules Committee.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 350 (Senator Nathan Dahm) </b>Creates the Red Tape Repealer Act requiring rule replacement requests for any proposed new agency rules.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b> Update: </b>Assigned to Senate Rules Committee.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 356 (Senator Nathan Dahm) </b>Prohibits the use or authorization of the use of public funds, property or time to engage in legislative or executive lobbying, as defined by the rules of the Ethics Commission, except as provided
in the Whistleblower Act or in connection with individual rights set forth in the U.S. and Oklahoma Constitutions.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b> <u>Update: </u></b><u>Assigned to Senate Rules Committee.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 366 (Senator Gary Stanislawski</b>) Makes the Oklahoma Health Care Authority (OHCA) Administrator a gubernatorial appointee, subject to Senate confirmation<b>.</b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b> <u>Update: </u></b><u>Assigned to Senate Rules Committee.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 367 (Senator Nathan Dahm) </b>Requires all rules promulgated by every agency, board and commission to sunset once every four years. It requires the House and Senate to form a joint review committee during the year preceding
the sunset of each agency, board or commission's rules.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b> <u>Update: </u></b><u>Assigned to Senate Rules Committee.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 368 (Senator Nathan Dahm)</b> Changes the date by which agencies, boards and commissions must file administrative rules with the Legislature to February 1 from April 1.<b>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b> <u>Update: </u></b><u>Assigned to Senate Rules Committee.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 478 (Senator J.J. Dossett) </b>Creates the Paid Family Leave Act. It requires the Department of Labor to establish a family temporary disability insurance program. It requires the insurance provide up to six weeks of wage
replacement benefits to workers who take time off work to care for a seriously ill child, spouse, parent, grandparent, grandchild, sibling or domestic partner or to bond with a minor child within one year of the birth or placement of the child in connection
with foster care or adoption.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><u>Update: </u></b><u>Assigned to Senate Business, Commerce and Tourism Committee then to Senate Appropriations Committee.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 531 (Senator Ron Sharp) </b>Increases the state's contribution to the Oklahoma State Employees Deferred Savings Incentive Plan to $50 from $25 per month for qualifying employees beginning Jan. 1, 2021.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update:</u></b><u> Assigned to Senate Appropriations Committee.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 577 (Senator Darrell Weaver ) </b> Creates additional longevity pay schedule for employees who do not receive at least a "meet standards" rating on their most current performance rating.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update:</u></b><u> Assigned to Senate Appropriations Committee.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 587 (Senator Nathan Dahm) </b>Limits the purposes for which state agencies are required to make payroll deductions. It deletes a payroll deduction for Oklahoma Today magazine. It prohibits school districts from making payroll
deductions for political contributions.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update:</u></b><u> Assigned to Senate Finance Committee.<b><o:p></o:p></b></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 592 (Senator Mark Allen)</b> Requires any organization or group of 100 or more persons that engages in an organized protest at the State Capitol building to post a bond of $50,000 with the Oklahoma Capitol Improvement Authority
in order to offset the cost of additional security, clean up and repairs.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update:</u></b><u> Assigned to Senate Rules Committee.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 631 (Senator Mark Allen)</b> Requires all events or exhibits properly scheduled and approved for individuals or groups in locations designated in the Oklahoma State Capitol or any of its public spaces or plazas eligible for
events or exhibits to be honored in the location and on the specific date and time so approved. It requires the Office of Management and Enterprise Services (OMES) to provide any personnel or items required for controlling the location for the specified time
and location reservation.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 655 (Senator Roger Thompson)</b> Modifies requirements for a statewide assistance telework program. It deletes a section requiring requests for additional office space for a state agency to be submitted and reviewed by the
State Governmental Technology Applications Review Board.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 684 (Senator Gary Stanislawski)</b> Requires the Division of Central Accounting and Reporting to establish a mandatory training program to identify and certify certain Oklahoma state agency employees as financial managers.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 740 (Senator Adam Pugh) </b>Modifies a statutory reference which relates to public meetings.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 778 (Senator Joseph Silk)</b> Creates the Life Appropriation Act prohibiting an agency or instrumentality of the State from awarding a grant to pay the direct or indirect costs of performing, inducing, referring or counseling
in favor of abortions. It prohibits any agency or instrumentality of the State from funding an individual or entity that performs or counsels in favor of convenience abortions or is an affiliate of a person or entity that performs or provides referrals to
convenience abortions.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 883 (Senator Dave Rader)</b> Requires the Oklahoma Tax Commission to contract with out-of-state private auditors and audit firms, specifically to perform audit functions related to sales and use tax collections and collections
of other unpaid taxes owed by out-of-state individuals.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 913 (Senator Kay Floyd) </b>Renames<b> </b>the Oklahoma Career Service Act from the Oklahoma Personnel Act. The act states the intent is to allow agencies flexibility in human resource management within a framework of consistent
best practices across all the state agencies and entities, retaining employees based on performance, counseling inadequate performance and unacceptable conduct, and assuring employees are protected against coercion from partisan political purposes.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 918 (Senator Paul Rosino)</b> Allows state employees to donate administrative hours of labor toward a charitable organization or public school. It also sets regulations on how much time employees may donate per calendar year.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 934 (Senator John Montgomery)</b> Creates the Oklahoma Sooner Choice Trust Act requiring every employer in the state to collect a 3 percent contribution amount from the paycheck for every employee provided the pretax dollars
shall be collected after all other deductions and remit such funds to the Oklahoma Tax Commission.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 949 (Senator Adam Pugh)</b> Requires the director of each state agency to notify the Legislature in every instance in which a state employee receives a salary increase greater than 2 percent. It requires written notice be
provided to the Senate President Pro Tempore and House Speaker no fewer than 30 business days prior to the authorization of any such pay increase.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Joint Resolution 6 (Senator Gary Stanislawksi)</b> Puts to a vote of the people allowing the governor to appoint the Superintendent of Public Instruction and the Chancellor of Higher Education.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 1034 (Representative Collin Walke) </b>Requires the Oklahoma Employees Health Insurance Plan to provide coverage for the screening, diagnosis and treatment of autism spectrum disorders in individuals less than 18 years of
age.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 1117 (Representative Kevin West)</b> Exempts Oklahoma from the federal daylight saving time.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 1176 (Representative David Perryman) </b>Requires all full-time employees who were employed by the state on the last working day of June 2019, to be awarded an annualized salary increase of $2,400, effective July 1, 2019.
It defines applicable terms.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 1201 (Representative Tom Gann) </b>Limits the rulemaking authority of state agencies to implementing law or policy as specifically set by the Legislature.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 1357 (Representative Kelly Albright)</b> Requires each state agency that employs at least 25 employees to maintain a private lactation room that is not a restroom that may be used by employees and members of the public to
nurse a child or express breast milk, and, if practical, it is to include a refrigerator.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 1361 (Representative Toni Hasenbeck) </b>Requires any bill or joint resolution related to education be accompanied by a fiscal analysis estimating the increase or decrease in revenues, expenditures and actual cost of updating
materials or providing new training or instruction and the present and future fiscal impact of the proposed legislation.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 1376 (Representative Zack Taylor) </b>Changes the Federal Poverty Guideline level used for state employees from three-person households to four-person households.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 1391 (Represemtatove Sheila Dills)</b> Requires the employees of agency contractors in positions with access to federal tax information and data to be subjected to a criminal history search and fingerprint search by the Oklahoma
State Bureau of Investigation.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 1886 (Representative Denise Crosswhite Hader)</b> Requires an agency proposing an administrative rule that mentions or refers to another state agency to notify the affected agency at least 30 days prior to the hearing for
adoption of the rule.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 1945 (Representative Mark Lepak)</b> Prohibits any state employee, employee of a school district, or any other person from knowingly or willfully using a state or school district telephone, electronic mail or other state or
school district equipment, property or services for political advocacy.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 1953 (Representative Dustin Roberts) </b>Authorizes state agencies, at their discretion, up to two times annually, to offer their employees an option to voluntarily elect to be paid for a maximum of 200 hours of unused accrued
annual leave. It requires the program to be optional for all eligible employees, and the agency can choose the monthly pay period in which to provide such payment. It requires the employee to retain 120 hours of annual leave after the payment is made.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 2082 (Representative Mickey Dollens)</b> Creates the Fair Scheduling Act which requires specific employers to supply written good-faith estimates of the employee's work schedule at the time of hire, stating the median number
of hours the employee can expect to work in an average one-month period and whether or not an employee who is not on a voluntary standby list can expect to work on-call shifts and, if so, set forth an objective standard for when an employee not listed on the
voluntary standby list may be expected to be available to work on-call shifts.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 2086 (Representative Mickey Dollens)</b> Provides rates of compensation for on-call classified state employees and sets requirements for state agencies to classify job classes of individual positions within the agency subject
to on-call duty.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 2133 (Representative. Cyndi Munson)</b> Modifies the minimum annualized salary for state employees.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 2335 (Representative Sean Roberts)</b> Prohibits expenditure of public monies for publicity or propaganda opposing Second Amendment Rights.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 2438 (Representative Sean Roberts)</b> Adjusts the Oklahoma Education Lottery Trust Fund appropriations. The bill lowers the amount Oklahoma State System of Higher Education construction projects and capital outlay projects
can receive from Oklahoma Education Lottery Trust Fund appropriations to $1.00.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 2670 (Representative Kevin Wallace</b>) Creates the Pay for Success Act. It states that it is the intent of the Legislature through the bill to authorize innovation opportunities in the form of pay-for-success contracts and
authorize success payments to be made from appropriated or other agency funds; address outcomes that span the mission and purpose of multiple agencies; provide a fund that may be used by agencies for success payments; and that the bill shall not prohibit the
use of pay-for-success contracts by municipalities, counties or other local jurisdictions.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 2673 (Representative Kevin Wallace)</b> Gives full-time and part-time state officers and employees an annualized salary increase, though no salary increase is to exceed salary limitations provided in an agency's annual appropriation
or salary limits set by statue.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Budget & Taxes</span></u></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 132 (Senator Joe Newhouse) S</b>unsets on July 1, 2022, unless reauthorized by the Legislature, the $0.16 per gallon credit against the tax imposed on all gasoline, compressed natural gas, liquefied natural gas and all diesel
fuel.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to Senate Finance Committee.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 169 (Senator George Young)</b> Makes the earned income tax credit refundable for tax years beginning on or after Jan. 1, 2019.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to Senate Finance Committee</u>.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 180 (Senator Gary Stanislawski) </b>Modifies the limits on credits claimed under the Oklahoma Equal Opportunity Education Scholarship Act.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to Senate Appropriations Committee.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 390 (Senator Bill Coleman)</b> Requires an economic development or industrial development authority to make an annual in lieu of tax payment equal to the amount of ad valorem tax which would otherwise be assessed on property
in that county if that land is utilized for commercial purposes by an entity engaged in electric power generation by wind.<b>
<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><b><u>Update: </u></b><u>Assigned to Senate Finance Committee.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 395 (Senator Nathan Dahm)</b> Sunsets the corporate income tax on Dec. 31, 2019. The bill also updates statutory and date references related to the individual income tax.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b> <u>Update: </u></b><u>Assigned to Senate Finance Committee.
<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 404 (Senator Stephanie Bice)</b> Repeals language related to income tax incentives.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b> <u>Update: </u></b><u>Assigned to Senate Finance Committee.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 406 (Senator Stephanie Bice)</b> Deletes obsolete language and modifies qualifying dates for an incentive or increment district as related to the Oklahoma Local Development and Enterprise Zone Incentive Leverage Act.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b> <u>Update: </u></b><u>Assigned to Senate Finance Committee.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 427 (Senator Stephanie Bice)</b> Updates statutory references related to the apportionment of gross production tax revenue.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to Senate Finance Committee.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 519 (Senator Kimberly David)</b> Prohibits any monies deposited in the Oil and Gas Division Revolving Fund from being transferred for any purpose to any other state agency or any account of the Corporation Commission or be
used for the purpose of contracting with any other state agency or reimbursing any other state agency for any expense, unless otherwise provided.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update:</u></b><u> Assigned to Senate Appropriations Committee.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 549 (Senator Casey Murdock</b>) Requires the first $15 million from the 7 percent gross production tax on natural gas and/or casinghead gas be deposited in the County Improvements for Roads and Bridges Fund.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update:</u></b><u> Assigned to Senate Appropriations Committee.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 557 (Senator Stephanie Bice) </b>Extends the sunset on the gross production tax levied on natural gas or casinghead gas to June 30, 2023.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update:</u></b><u> Assigned to Senate Appropriations Committee.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 657 (Senator John Montgomery and Representative Trey Caldwell)
</b>Adds a category of exemption for which reimbursement may be claimed under the Ad Valorem Reimbursement Fund.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 681 (Senator John Montgomery)</b> Modifies apportionments of the gross production and sales tax.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 932 (Senator Micheal Bergstrom)</b> Requires the first $10 million collected from the tax levied on natural gas at a rate of 4 percent to be deposited in the Oklahoma Quick Action Closing Fund.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Joint Resolution 1 (Senator Joe Newhouse)</b> Proposes a vote of the people to raise the balance cap on the Rainy Day Fund to 30 percent of the amount certified for the General Revenue Fund for the prior fiscal year from 15 percent
of the amount certified for the General Revenue Fund for the prior fiscal year.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Joint Resolution 9 (Senator Kevin Matthews) </b>Puts to a vote of the people requiring any bill that lowers a tax rate to receive a 3/4ths vote.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Joint Resolution 10 (Senator Kevin Matthews) </b>Puts to a vote of the people changing the required 3/4ths margin on raising taxes to a 60% margin.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 1160 (Representative Rande Worthen) </b>Requires a taxpayer be allowed an income tax credit for qualifying educational expenses incurred during the tax year for any child who is eligible to be enrolled in a public school in
this state free of charge and who qualifies as the taxpayer's dependent for federal tax purposes, for tax years beginning after Dec. 31, 2018.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 1404 (Representative Justin Humphrey)</b> Places a 7 percent gross production tax on natural resources mined for the purpose of producing aggregate within an unincorporated area of a county or municipality with the revenue
from the tax directed at compensating those government jurisdictions for costs associated with damage to local roads and bridges.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 1455 (Representative Emily Virgin) </b>Modifies eligibility for the capital gains deduction. It creates capital gains deduction tiers.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 2202 (Representative Kyle Hilbert)</b> Requires the apportionments to counties and school districts impacted by the deposit of gross production tax revenues to the Redbud Future Fund as provided in a House Joint Resolution
to be adjusted to compensate such jurisdictions and other governmental entities or funds from modifications to the apportionments provided by law.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 2489 (Representative Charles McCall)</b> Creates the Ad Valorem Reimbursement Fund Amendments Act of 2019.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 2530 ( Representative Melodye Blancett)</b> Exempts from sales tax sales of tangible personal property or services to or by an organization which is exempt from taxation pursuant to the provisions of the Internal Revenue Code,
26 U.S.C., Section 501(c)(3), verified with a letter from the MIT Fab Foundation as an official member of the Fab Lab Network in compliance with the Fab Charter, and able to provide documentation that their primary and principal purpose is to provide community
access to advanced 21st century manufacturing and digital fabrication tools for science, technology, engineering, art and math (STEAM) learning skills, developing inventions, creating and sustaining businesses and producing personalized products.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Joint Resolution 1003 (Representative Kelly Albright)</b> Puts to a vote of the people lowering the 3/4ths margin requirement to a 3/5ths margin for any revenue raising bill.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Joint Resolution 1005 (Representative Mark Lepak</b>) Puts to a vote of the people raising the maximum amount of funds for deposit in the constitutional reserve from 15% to 30%.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Joint Resolution 1015 (Representative Mark Lepak) </b>
Proposes a vote of the people on a constitutional amendment related to ad valorem taxes.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Career Tech</span></u></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 15 (Senator Ron Sharp) </b>Eliminates the ability for technology centers or higher education institutions to sponsor charter schools.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to Senate Education Committee.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 22 (Senator Ron Sharp)</b> Allows certain technology schools to be examiners for driver's licenses after an application and approval process through the Department of Public Safety.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to Senate Public Safety Committee.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 432 (Senator Adam Pugh)</b> Requires the State Board of Career and Technology Education, to the availability of funds, which may include but not be limited to state appropriations, grant funds, foundation funds and other
funds, to establish a statewide aerospace training facility to provide education and training in the aerospace sector. It requires the board to promulgate rules that include but are not limited to criteria for enrollment in the statewide aerospace training
facility; curriculum requirements; minimum courses of study and testing requirements for the statewide aerospace training facility; minimum qualifications for instructors at the statewide aerospace training facility; and tuition for courses offered by the
statewide aerospace training facility.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to Senate Education Committee.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 741 (Senator Jason Smalley) </b>Requires the Department of Career and Technology Education, in collaboration with the Department of Labor, prior to the beginning of the 2019-2020 school year to review and approve career readiness
assessments and assessment-based credentials that measure and document foundational workplace skills.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 996 (Senator Kim David)</b> Requires that a science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) block course, whether taught at a comprehensive high school or technology center school, when taken in the tenth, eleventh or twelfth
grade, be taught by a certified teacher and approved by the State Board of Education and the independent district board of education to the list of courses eligible to meet the mathematics requirement and the laboratory sciences requirement for high school
graduation.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 1364 (Representative Toni Hasenbeck)</b> Directs the State Board of Career and Technology Education, in cooperation with the Department of Labor, to review and approve career-readiness assessments and assessment-based credentials
measuring and documenting workplace skills, as funding is available.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 1373 (Representative Zack Taylor)</b> Requires all state entities that are charged with oversight of occupational licenses to explicitly list the specific criminal records that would disqualify an applicant from receiving
a license or certification. The act allows licensing authorities to only list disqualifying criminal records that are specific and directly related to the duties and responsibilities of the licensed occupation and to only consider valid convictions.<b><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 2026 (Representative Mark Lepak) </b>Modifies the State Board of Career and Technology Education to be an advisory board to the Director of Career and Technology Education.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 2027 (Representative Kelly Albright</b>) Modifies the State Board of Career and Technology Education to be an advisory board to the Director of Career and Technology Education. It transfers all duties and powers of the Board
to the Director.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 2279 (Representative Josh West) </b>Requires the court to waive outstanding fines, court costs and fees if the person has secured admission to and is enrolled in an institution that is a technology center school or workforce
training program. The bill requires the court to waive the fines upon the completion of each 40-hour work week.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Concurrent Enrollment</span></u></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 1109 (Representative Kevin West) </b>Requires the Commissioners of the Land Office to transfer from the permanent school funds to the State Department of Education the monies necessary to fund concurrent enrollment in college
or university courses for eligible high school students for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2020, and for each fiscal year thereafter. It requires the State Board of Education to determine the amount of funds necessary to fund concurrent enrollment based on
the performance of the revenues generated by the permanent school fund which are not already allocated for the use and benefit of the common schools.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 2043 (Representative Dean Davis) </b>Expands the concurrent enrollment tuition waiver eligibility to all high school students.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 2312 (Representative T.J. Marti)</b> Entitles students other than high school seniors who meet the eligibility requirements for concurrent enrollment to receive a tuition waiver equivalent to the amount of resident tuition
for a maximum of nine credit hours per year. The bill also permits courses offered at the undergraduate level through the University of Oklahoma-Tulsa Schusterman Center, Northeastern State University, Langston University and Oklahoma State University/Tulsa
to duplicate those offered by Tulsa Community College.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Healthcare</span></u></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 40 (Senator Paul Scott) </b>Ends the Soon-to-be-Sooner benefits program.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to Senate Health and Human Services Committee.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 68 (Senator Dewayne Pemberton)</b> Requires Department of Health licensing of freestanding emergency medical care facilities.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to Senate Retirement and Insurance Committee.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 73 (Senator Roger Thompson) </b>Updates several governing boards' names and modifies the maximum number of full-time-equivalent employees to the Oklahoma Board of Pharmacy.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b>Update</b>: Assigned to Senate Appropriations Committee.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 81 (Senator Frank Simpson and Representative Tommy Hardin)
</b>Modifies qualifications for advance practice registered nurses, permitting them to have a degree higher than a master's degree.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 139 (Senator J.J. Dossett)</b> Requires in vitro fertilization coverage for any health benefit plan that provides pregnancy-related benefits for individuals covered under the plan.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to Senate Retirement and Insurance Committee.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 146 (Senator Joe Newhouse) </b>Requires a health care facility that requires immunizations to grant a religious exemption to any employee who objects to an immunization against influenza on religious grounds.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to Senate Health and Human Services Committee.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 218 (Senator Dewayne Pemberton) </b>Creates the “Oklahoma Right to Shop Act” in which enrollees are directly incentivized to shop, before and after their out-of-pocket limit has been met, for lower-cost participating health
care providers or health care entities for comparable health care services. It allows incentives to include cash payments, gift cards or credits, or reductions of premiums, copayments, cost-sharing or deductibles. Requires a carrier offering a health plan
in Oklahoma in the individual or small group insurance market to comply with provided requirements, beginning upon approval of the next health insurance rate filing in 2020.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to Senate Retirement and Insurance Committee.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 434 (Senator Adam Pugh)</b> Authorizes the Physician Manpower Training Commission to use its physician training subsidy program for specialist physicians training.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to Senate Health and Human Services Committee.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 605 (Senator Greg. McCortney)</b> Requires the Oklahoma Health Care Authority to establish the Oklahoma Plan within the Insure Oklahoma program. It requires the Oklahoma Plan to be a health insurance premium assistance program
administered by the Authority which will provide coverage through one or more commercial health insurers to any person who meets the requirements set forth therein and enrolls in the plan.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 621 (Senator Allison Ikley-Freeman)</b> Prohibits an allopathic physician, osteopathic physician, surgeon, or student participating in a course of instruction, residency program or clinical training program from performing
a pelvic examination on an anesthetized or unconscious female patient. It provides exceptions.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 1017 (Senator Marty Quinn) </b>Clarifies language related to mandated health insurance coverage related to the Oklahoma Employees Health Insurance Plan. The bill defines the term "mandated."<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 1018 (Senator Paul Rosino) </b>Prohibits the State Board of Health from establishing Federal Specification KKK-A-1822 ambulance standards for stretcher vans. The bill modifies the definition of the term "stretcher van passenger."
It permits stretcher vans to carry oxygen and associated administration equipment and to administer it.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 1036 (Senator Kay Floyd)</b> Creates the Expand Medicaid Now Act. The bill requires the state to expand the Medicaid program to provide assistance to all persons who apply and who are determined to be eligible for such assistance
and for whom federal matching funds are available to the state under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, as amended by the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 1018 (Representative Marcus McEntire) </b>Directs school districts to provide age appropriate HIV, AIDS and related instruction. Directing the State Department of Education to create or implement medically accurate curriculum.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 1035 (Representative Collin Walke) </b>Requires any health benefit plan that is offered, issued or renewed in Oklahoma after Nov. 1, 2019, to provide coverage for evidence-based pain management treatment.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 1058 (Representative Marcus McEntire)</b> Updates language in Oklahoma public employee insurance policies, including from State and Education Oklahoma Employees Group Insurance Board to the Oklahoma Employees Insurance and
Benefits Board.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 1082 (Representative Shane Stone)</b> Directs the Oklahoma Health Care Authority to seek Medicaid waiver authority so SoonerCare recipients under the age of 18 will be universally covered and will not have to meet income guidelines,
contingent on approval from federal Medicare and Medicaid Services and available state funding.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 1098 (Representative Kevin West)</b> Prohibits discrimination against unvaccinated employees.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 1112 (Representative Kevin West) </b>Authorizes the State Board of Health to propose after notice and hearing to alter the list of immunizations required. It requires any proposed change in the list of immunizations required
to be submitted to the next regular session of the Legislature and such change could only be approved by the Legislature.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 1140 (Representative Danny Sterling) </b>Requires any state and education employee group health insurance plan to provide coverage for annual preventative health examinations without limiting or diminishing diagnostic benefits.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 1327 (Representative Marcus McEntire)</b> Creates the Oklahoma Medicaid Expansion Act.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 1457 (Representative Emily Virgin)</b> Creates the Oklahoma Medicaid Expansion Act.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 1869 (Representative Andy Fugate</b>) Creates the Oklahoma Medicaid Expansion Act.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 2418 (Representative Lewis Moore) </b>Allows a ambulatory surgical center to share its license under a sublicense agreement with one or more designated physician groups and sets the responsibilities of the surgical center
and the physician groups. It also directs the State Department of Health to promulgate rules prescribing minimum requirements for use agreements.<b>
</b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 2441 (Representative Sean Roberts) </b>Requires a contracted hospital or inpatient facility to provide notice to an enrollee at the time they schedule a procedure whether or not the enrollee's insurance carrier covers the
service at that facility and provide a noncontracted provider with a good-faith estimate of charges and certain disclosures. The act sets further conditions for facilities carrying for noncontracted enrollees.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Higher Education</span></u></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 90 (Senator Adam Pugh) </b>Extends the sunset date for the State Accrediting Agency to July 1, 2024.<b><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b> <u>Update:</u></b><u> Assigned to Senate General Government Committee.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 103 (Senator George Young) </b>Encourages the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education to utilize appropriated funds to support entrepreneurship, with special emphasis upon providing support to minority communities in
the state.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to Senate Education Committee.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 152 (Senator Allison Ikley-Freeman) </b>Prohibits Oklahoma State System of Higher Education institutions from charging a fee to a person who is enrolled in the institution or who was previously enrolled in the institution,
regardless of whether they graduated from the institution, for the first two copies of a person's college transcript.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to Senate Education Committee.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 159 (Senator Joe Newhouse) </b>Creates the Kansas State University License Plate.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to Senate Transportation Committee.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 183 (Senator Brent Howard)</b> Requires governing boards of two-year colleges within the Oklahoma State System of Higher Education be consolidated if: 1) the governing boards of two or more two-year colleges propose a plan
to voluntarily consolidate and submit the plan, and 2) the voluntary consolidation plan is affirmatively approved by the Legislature by adoption of a joint resolution.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to Senate Education Committee.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 194 (Senator Stephanie Bice and Representative Nicole Miller)
</b>Removes the requirement for teacher candidates enrolled in an elementary or early childhood education program to pass a comprehensive assessment to measure their teaching skills in the area of reading instruction.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to Senate Education Committee.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 211 (Senator Joe Newhouse)</b> Prohibits resident tuition from being charged by institutions with the Oklahoma State System of Higher Education and the State Board of Career and Technology Education to state residents presenting
proper certification from the United States Veterans Administration or the Armed Forces of the United States that the veteran has a service-connected disability rating of 50 percent or more. It limits the resident tuition waiver to a period of five years.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to Senate Education Committee.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 348 (Senator Stephanie Bice</b>) Removes the requirement for a tenant in a Small Business Incubator to make at least 75% of its gross sales constituting the principal business activity of the business to buyers located outside
the state or to buyers whose principal business activity is conducted outside the state to qualify for the income tax exemption. The measure also repeals the tax exemption given to sponsors.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to Senate Finance Committee.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 361 (Senator Julie Daniels) </b>Deems the outdoor areas of public institutions of higher education public forums for the campus community. It prohibits public institutions of higher education from creating "free speech zones"
or other designated areas of campus outside of which expressive activities are prohibited.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to Senate Judiciary Committee.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 391 (Senator Kevin Matthews) </b>Appropriates $300,000 from the FY2020 General Revenue Fund to the Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry to be transferred to Oklahoma State University and Langston University for the
purpose of funding urban agriculture and farmers' market programs for food deserts.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to Senate Appropriations Committee.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 407 (Senator Dave Rader)</b> Modifies provisions of the Oklahoma Equal Opportunity Education Scholarship Act.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b> <u>Update: </u></b><u>Assigned to Senate Finance Committee</u>.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 409 (Senator Joe Newhouse)</b> Requires a court to waive outstanding fines, court costs and fees if the offender has secured admission to, is enrolled in and is actively pursuing completion in a program of study in an institution
which is a member of the Oklahoma State System of Higher Education or technology center school or a workforce training program intended to expand further employment opportunities. It requires the court to waive the fines, court costs and fees based on the
equivalent value of the potential gross income of the offender as established by the minimum wage rate of the state upon the offender's completion of each 40-hour work week during the length of the program.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to Senate Judiciary Committee.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 438 (Senator John Haste)</b> Removes outdated language related to members of the Oklahoma State University Medical Authority.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 439 (Senator Marty Quinn)</b> Requires a terminal degree granted by a college recognized by the State Board of Education be granted equal recognition as a doctorate degree for teacher salary determinations.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to Senate Appropriations Committee.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 464 (Senator Michael Brooks)</b> Requires Oklahoma State System of Higher Education institutions to grant a waiver equivalent to the amount of resident tuition and fees incurred by a student, beginning with the 2019-2020
academic year, who is a resident of this state; has satisfied the admission standards as determined by The Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education for first-time entering students for the appropriate type of institution; and is the child of a parent or
legal guardian who has vested in the Oklahoma Teachers' Retirement System.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to Senate Education Committee.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 465 (Senator Michael Brooks)</b> Requires the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education to adopt a policy which allows a student to enroll in an institution within the Oklahoma State System of Higher Education as an undergraduate
student and allows the student to be eligible for resident tuition if the student graduated from a public high school in this state with a grade point average in the top 10 percent of the student's high school graduating class.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to Senate Education Committee.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 485 (Senator Micheal Bergstrom</b>) Creates a sunset date for the Small Business Incubators Incentives Act. The tax exemption ends on tax years after January 1, 2020.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update:</u></b><u> Assigned to Senate Finance Committee.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 491 (Senator Dewayne Pemberton)</b> Creates the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education Modernization Act of 2019. It provides the purpose of the act to implement the recommendations of the Task Force on the Future of
Higher Education established by the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education to improve the structure of The Oklahoma State System of Higher Education through modernization and efficiency.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update:</u></b><u> Assigned to Senate Education Committee.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 597 (Senator Gary Stanislawski)</b> Creates a task force to study how four-year colleges within the Oklahoma State System of Higher Education can assist two-year colleges to save money. It provides for membership. It requires
the task force to be subject to the Oklahoma Open Meeting Act.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update:</u></b><u> Assigned to Senate Education Committee.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 765 (Senator Greg McCortney)</b> Prohibits the smoking of marijuana in public places. The bill permits institutions of the Oklahoma State System of Higher Education to declare themselves marijuana free, including free of
marijuana and marijuana products. It exempts from the restrictions on marijuana smoking medical research or treatment centers, if marijuana smoking is integral to the research or treatment.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 939 (Senator Adam Pugh)</b> Adds accreditation by the Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing or the Commission of Collegiate Nursing Education to requirements for advanced practice registered nursing education
programs and requires an advanced practice registered nursing program show evidence of periodic on-campus attendance for assessment and evaluation of students' progress and competence in addition to completing a minimum 1,000 clinical hours in the graduate
program.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 1320 (Representative Kelly Albright)</b> Exempts certain members of the Armed Forces of the United States who are also Oklahoma residents and their dependents from tuition, dues, fees and other required charges from each institution
of higher education in Oklahoma.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 1448 (Representative Tom Gann)</b> Recreates the State Accrediting Agency.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 1921 (Representative Derrel Fincher) </b>Creates the Oklahomans Virtually Everywhere Act of 2019, directing the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education, the State Board of Career and Technology Education, the Department
of Commerce, and the Office of Management and Enterprise Services to research and develop a proposal to make Oklahoma a leader in virtual presence.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 2042 (Representative Dean Davis)</b> Allows courses offered at the undergraduate level through Northeastern State University to duplicate those offered by Tulsa Community College.<br>
<br>
<b>House Bill 2064 (Representative Mark Lepak)</b> Creates the “Oklahoma Accrediting Agency Reauthorization Act."<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 2225 (Representative Todd Russ)</b> Prohibits any alcoholic beverages being stored, sold, dispensed, served or consumed on the premises of an Oklahoma State System of Higher Education institution.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 2228 (Representative Todd Russ)</b> Requires the board of regents for each institution within the Oklahoma State System of Higher Education to adopt a student housing policy that prohibits coeducational housing in dorms, halls
or other student housing.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 2261 (Representative Kenton Patzkowsky)</b> Creates the Teacher Incentive Program. The bill requires The Oklahoma State System of Higher Education to exempt up to 202 persons annually from the payment of tuition, dues and
fees up to $5,000 and establishes eligibility.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 2438 (Representative Sean Roberts)</b> Adjusts the Oklahoma Education Lottery Trust Fund appropriations. The bill lowers the amount Oklahoma State System of Higher Education construction projects and capital outlay projects
can receive from Oklahoma Education Lottery Trust Fund appropriations to $1.00.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b> <o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 2643 (Representative Rhonda Baker)</b> Creates the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education Modernization Act of 2019. It provides the purpose of the act to implement the recommendations of the Task Force on the Future
of Higher Education established by the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education to improve the structure of The Oklahoma State System of Higher Education through modernization and efficiency.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 2672 (Representative Kevin Wallace)</b> Removes certain requirements for appointed members of the Oklahoma State University Medical Authority.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Joint Resolution 1008 (Representative Mark Lepak)</b> Proposes a vote of the people on a constitutional amendment related to the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Medical Marijuana/Industrial Hemp</span></u></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 31 (Senator Wayne Shaw) </b>Adds measurements in grams to the limits for medical marijuana possession.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to Senate Health & Human Services Committee.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 162 (Senator Rob Standridge)</b> Modifies the qualifications for physicians to sign medical marijuana license applications to include those who are licensed by and in good standing with the State Board of Medical Licensure
and Supervision or the State Board of Osteopathic Examiners rather than only those who are Oklahoma Board certified.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to Senate Health & Human Services Committee.</u><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 213 (Senator Larry Boggs)</b> Modifies the qualifications for physicians to sign medical marijuana license applications to include those who are licensed by and in good standing with the State Board of Medical Licensure and
Supervision or the State Board of Osteopathic Examiners rather than only those who are Oklahoma Board certified.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to Senate Health & Human Services Committee.</u><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 238 (Senator Rob Standridge) </b>Requires any manufactured product containing cannabidiol to include a label which contains the country of origin of the cannabidiol and whether the cannabidiol is synthetic or natural.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to Senate Health & Human Services Committee.</u><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 242 (Senator Rob Standridge) </b>Providing for registration and regulation of pain-management clinics.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to Senate Health & Human Services Committee.</u><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 305 (Senator Julie Daniels)</b> Prohibits an employer from refusing to hire, disciplining, discharging or otherwise penalizing an applicant or employee solely on the basis of such applicant's or employee's status as a medical
marijuana licensee or on the basis of a positive test for marijuana components.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to Senate Business, Commerce and Tourism Committee.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 307 (Senator Julie Daniels) </b>Levies an excise tax on retail medical marijuana sales at the rate of 7 percent of the gross sales by the seller.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to Senate Finance Committee.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 325 (Representative Casey Murdock)</b> A county may, by vote of a majority of the registered voters in the county, restrict or prohibit the possession, consumption, transport, sale, cultivation or manufacture of marijuana
or marijuana products, or any combination thereof.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to Senate Rules Committee.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 421 (Senator Stephanie Bice)</b> Modifies prohibited acts under the Uniform Controlled Dangerous Substances Act. It modifies the penalties for those found in violation of the acts prohibited therein. It requires a person
in possession of a substance classified in Schedule I or II, except for marijuana, involving one-quarter of a gram or more of the Schedule I or II substance, upon conviction, to be guilty of a felony, and to be sentenced to a term of imprisonment in the custody
of the Department of Corrections.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to Senate Public Safety Committee.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 554 (Senator Casey Murdock)</b> Creates the Industrial Hemp Production Act. It requires the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry to develop a plan to license and regulate industrial hemp production.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><br>
Senate Bill 555 (Senator Marty Quinn</b>) Modifies the definition of "hemp" under the Uniform Controlled Dangerous Substances Act.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 754 (Senator Greg McCortney) </b>Clarifies language related to medical marijuana. The bill also modifies the apportionment of revenue from the gross receipts tax on medical marijuana. It changes the apportionment of 25 percent
of the revenue to the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services from the State Department of Health.<br>
<br>
<b>Senate Bill 755 (Senator Greg McCortney)</b> Prohibits all marijuana advertising and labels of usable marijuana and marijuana products sold from containing any statement or illustration that is false or misleading; promotes overconsumption; represents that
the use of marijuana has curative or therapeutic effects; or depicts a child or other person under legal age to consume marijuana; or includes objects such as toys, cartoon or other characters, which suggest the presence of a child, or any other depiction
designed in any manner to be especially appealing to children<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 756 (Senator Greg McCortney</b>) Requires all medical marijuana and medical marijuana products shall be packaged in child resistant packages as required by the federal Poison Prevention Packaging Act of 1970.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 758 (Senator Greg McCortney)</b> Authorizes the State Board of Medical Licensure and Supervision to issue guidance to all allopathic physicians on the recommending of medical marijuana to patients.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 759 (Senator Greg McCortney</b>) Provides that a physician who recommends use of medical marijuana cannot accept, solicit or offer any form of pecuniary remuneration from or to a caregiver, dispensary, processor, or commercial
grower; offer a discount or any other thing of value to a patient who uses or agrees to use a particular caregiver or dispensary; examine a patient for the purposes of recommending medical marijuana at a location where medical marijuana is dispensed; or hold
any economic interest in an enterprise that grows, transports, processes, or dispenses medical marijuana.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 760 (Senator Greg McCortney)</b> Clarifies language related to medical marijuana. The bill requires a short-term medical marijuana license application be made available on the State Department of Health's website that will
be granted to any applicant who can meet the requirements for a two-year medical marijuana license, but whose physician recommendation for medical marijuana is only valid for 60 days. It requires the fee for a short-term license and the procedure for extending
or renewing the license shall be determined by the Department of Health.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 763 (Senator Greg McCortney)</b> Clarifies language related to medical marijuana. The bill also permits a physician, when providing a medical marijuana recommendation to set, at his or her discretion, a maximum amount of
tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) that the patient may purchase each month.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 764 (Senator Greg McCortney)</b> Requires the State Department of Health to create a medical marijuana use registry for physicians, patients and caregivers. It requires the handling of any records maintained in the registry
be compliant with the provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 765 (Senator Greg McCortney)</b> Prohibits the smoking of marijuana in public places. The bill permits institutions of the Oklahoma State System of Higher Education to declare themselves marijuana free, including free of
marijuana and marijuana products. It exempts from the restrictions on marijuana smoking medical research or treatment centers, if marijuana smoking is integral to the research or treatment.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 767 (Senator Greg McCortney) </b>Creates the Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Authority to address issues related to the medical marijuana program in Oklahoma including, but not limited to, promulgating rules relating to the issuance
of patient licenses, medical marijuana business licenses and occupational licenses, and the dispensing, cultivating, processing, testing, transporting, storage, research and the use of and sale of medical marijuana as outlined in State Question No. 788<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 768 (Senator Greg McCortney</b>) Requires the State Department of Health to develop and implement a medical marijuana testing program to test medical marijuana and medical marijuana products for contaminants and for concentration
of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), cannabidiol (CBD) and any other chemicals deemed necessary by the department.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 811 (Senator Jason Smalley) </b>Prohibits biomedical and clinical medical marijuana research subject to federal regulation and institutional oversight from being subjected to State Department of Health oversight.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 863 (Senator Mark Allen)</b> Creates the Industrial Hemp Production Act to require the Department of Agriculture to develop a plan to license and regulate industrial hemp production in collaboration with the Office of the
Governor and the Office of the Attorney General.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 868 (Senator Lonnie Paxton)</b> Allows a grower licensee to engage in the growth and cultivation of industrial hemp from certified seeds for commercial purposes and establishes guidelines for grower licenses.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 887 (Senator Kim David)</b> Allows counties to establish, assess and collect fees from medical marijuana licensees or caregivers who, upon request and approval by the county where the person resides, exceeds the maximum possession
limits. The act only authorizes the person to exceed the set limits of possession within the borders of the county.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 911 (Senator Paul Scott)</b> Authorizes the Oklahoma Tax Commission to review applicable statutes, agency rules and procedures to determine if the excise tax levies on the sale of marijuana may be remitted electronically
in the form of virtual currency, then make a recommendation to the Governor, State Senate and State House of Representatives by Dec. 31, 2019.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 1030 (Senator Lonnie Paxton)</b> Clarifies language related to medical marijuana. The bill permits an employer to take action against the holder of a medical marijuana license solely based upon the status of an employee as
a medical marijuana license holder or the results of a drug test showing positive for marijuana or its components if the person is employed in a safety-sensitive position.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b>House Bill 1389 (Representative Tammy Townley)</b> Adds lighted marijuana or electronic cigarettes or similar devices to the definition of "smoking" in the Smoking in Public Places and Indoor Workplaces Act.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 1932 (Representative Robert Manger)</b> Specifies the measurement in grams and ounces of medical marijuana product a licensee can possess.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 2601 (Representative Jon Echols) </b>Clarifies language related to medical marijuana. The bill also authorizes a county to establish, assess and collect fees from medical marijuana licensees or caregivers who, upon request
and approval by the county where the person currently resides, exceed the maximum possession limits established in law. It limits the authority granted by a county to a medical marijuana licensee or caregiver to exceed maximum possession limits to apply only
within the borders of that county.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Oklahoma’s Promise</span></u></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 80 (Senator Roger Thompson) </b>Expands Oklahoma’s Promise eligibility to those who have completed schooling other than private or public and performed at a proficient level on statewide student assessments.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b>Update</b>: Assigned to Senate Education Committee.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 581 (Senator Joseph Silk) </b>Provides Oklahoma Higher Learning Access Program eligibility for students adopted while in the custody of a federally recognized Indian tribe or an out-of-state public child welfare agency and
is a resident of Oklahoma at the time eligibility is determined.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><u>Update:</u></b><u> Assigned to Senate Education Committee then Senate Appropriations Committee.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 2018 (Representative Monroe Nichols)</b> Includes the child of a person who is employed as a certified teacher as a student qualified for an award which includes payment of an amount equivalent to resident tuition or other
tuition for participation in the Oklahoma Higher Learning Access Program.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 2227 (Representative Todd Russ) </b>Provides eligibility for a child of a teacher to the Oklahoma Higher Learning Access Program if the adjusted gross income of the student's parents does not exceed $150,000 per year.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 2293 (Representative Harold Wright) </b>Allows student agreements to be witnessed by an adult with physical custody of the student as verified by the school district.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt">OneNet/Information Technology<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 227 (Senator Roger Thompson) </b>Creates the Oklahoma Information Services Department Act. The bill creates the Oklahoma Information Services Department, into which the Office of Management and Enterprise Services Information
Services Division will be consolidated. Higher Education is exempt.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b> Update: </b>Assigned to Senate Appropriations<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 1002 (Senator James Leewright</b>) Creates the Facilitating Internet Broadband Rural Expansion (FIBRE) Act. It prohibits cross-subsidization between a rural electric cooperative electricity services and the provision or operation
of emerging communications technologies by such rural electric cooperative or through an affiliate of such rural electric cooperative.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Public Safety/Campus Safety/Weapons</span></u></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 12 (Senator Nathan Dahm) </b>Constitutional Carry: permits a person at least 21 years of age or older, or 18 years of age but not yet 21 and a member or veteran of the United States Armed Forces, Reserves or National Guard
or was discharged under honorable conditions, and who is otherwise not disqualified from the possession or purchase of a firearm under state or federal law and is not carrying the firearm in furtherance of a crime to carry a firearm, concealed or unconcealed,
loaded or unloaded.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to Senate Public Safety Committee.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 24 (Senator Micheal Bergstrom) </b>Removes a firearm with an overall length of 26 inches or more from the definition of "pistols" or "handguns" in the Oklahoma Firearms Act of 1971. Changes Definitions of “shotguns” and other
weapons based on barrel length.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to Senate Public Safety Committee.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 34 (Senator Wayne Shaw) </b>Requires OSBI to check the National Instant Criminal Background Check System prior to issuing a Self-Defense Act license. Gives a 90-day window from the date establishing a residence to apply for
an Oklahoma handgun license if bringing a license from another state. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to Senate Public Safety Committee.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 38 (Senator David Bullard) </b>Authorizes the carrying of firearms in the State Capitol.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to Senate Rules Committee.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 46 (Senator Paul Scott)</b> Removes the restriction for convicted felons to ride in a car with a concealed weapon. Removes the phrases “machine-gun, sawed-off shotgun or rifle” and “dangerous or deadly” from the convicted
felons and delinquents restrictions.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to Senate Public Safety Committee.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 87 (Senator J.J. Dossett)</b> Permits a person to carry a concealed or unconcealed handgun without a license if they are 18 to 21 years of age and a member of the United States Armed Forces, the Reserves or National Guard.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to Senate Public Safety Committee.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 345 (Senator Casey Murdock) </b>Constitutional carry bill: allows anyone who is over the age of 21 or over the age of 18 if they are a member or veteran of the United States Armed Forces, Reserves or National Guard or was
honorably discharged from one of those services to carry a firearm, whether concealed or unconcealed, loaded or unloaded. The bill precludes anyone who was convicted of assault and battery, stalking, violation of a domestic abuse protection order, or a violation
relating to illegal drug use or possession under the Uniform Controlled Dangerous Substances Act. The act states a person can have a firearm on property set aside for parking by a college, university or technology center school.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to Senate Public Safety Committee.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 364 (Senator Nathan Dahm)</b> Prohibits any person, property owner, tenant, employer, or business entity from maintaining, establishing or enforcing any policy or rule that has the effect of prohibiting any person or employee,
except a convicted felon, from transporting, carrying or storing firearms or ammunition in a locked motor vehicle on any property set aside for any motor vehicle or a motor vehicle owned, leased or rented by the person or employee to conduct business for the
business entity.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to Senate Public Safety Committee.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 431 (Senator Marty Quinn)<u> </u></b>Modifies the notification requirement to law enforcement for an individual in possession of a concealed or unconcealed handgun. It removes the requirement that they notify the law enforcement
officer when they come in contact with them and replaces it with language that requires the notification on demand of the law enforcement officer. It removes the requirement that the notification be made at the first opportunity.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to Senate Public Safety Committee.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 619 (Senator James Leewright)</b> Deletes a section on notification procedures related to unlawful carry of firearms on colleges, universities or technology centers. It updates statutory reference.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 671 (Senator David Bullard)</b> Allows the board of education of a school district to adopt a policy to authorize the carrying of a handgun onto school property by school personnel specifically designated by the board of
education, provided such personnel meet specified criteria therein.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 708 (Senator Kim David )</b> Allows the city council or board of trustees for a city or municipality to, through a majority vote, designate personnel who have been issued a handgun license to attend an armed security guard
training program or a reserve peace officer certification program.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 775 (Senator Paul Scott)</b> Prohibits the state or any state government entity from creating any order, policy, ordinance or regulation touching in any way firearm and ammunition components.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 781 (Senator Paul Scott)</b> Prohibits any person or business entity from establishing or enforcing any policy or rule that has the effect of prohibiting any person or employee, except a convicted felon, from carrying or
storing firearms or ammunition in a motor vehicle owned, leased or rented by the person or employee while conducting business for the business entity.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 796 (Senator Joseph Silk)</b> Exempts sale of a firearm beginning January 1, 2020 from the tax levied by the Oklahoma Sales Tax Code.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 834 (Senator John Haste)</b> Creates a felony conviction for a person who buys or receives a stolen or embezzled firearm.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 866 (Senator Joseph Silk)</b> Modifies penalties for misdemeanor firearm violations. The bill requires a first conviction to be punishable by a fine of not more than $250 and/or imprisonment of not more than 30 days. It requires
second and subsequent convictions to be punishable of a fine not more than $500 and/or imprisonment of not more than 90 days.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 894 (Senator Nathan Dahm)</b> Prohibits the state or any state government entity from creating any order, policy, ordinance or regulation touching in any way firearm and ammunition components.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 897 (Senator Nathan Dahm)</b> Requires the state to prove without reasonable doubt immunity is not applicable in order to criminally prosecute a person who claims to have used defensive deadly force.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 959 (Senator Nathan Dahm) </b>Makes it illegal for a person under the influence of marijuana to carry or use shotguns, rifles or pistols unless they have medical marijuana license.<b><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Joint Resolution 16 (Senator David Bullard)</b> Proposes a vote of the people on a constitutional amendment that would prevent infringement of the right of citizens to keep and bear arms. The amendment would not prevent the Legislature
from prohibiting possession of firearms by a convicted felon, a person adjudicated as mentally incompetent or an individual involuntarily committed in any mental institution. The amount amendment would prohibit the imposition of registration or special taxation
upon the keeping of arms or ammunition.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 1001(Representative Jim Olsen) </b>Removes vehicle passenger restriction.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 1002 (Representative Jim Olsen) </b>Reduces penalty for unlawfully carrying firearm.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 1111 (Representative Kevin West)</b> Prohibits a person from carrying or possessing a firearm in any establishment where beer or alcoholic beverages, as defined by statute, are consumed. It exempts an owner or, proprietor
or employee of the establishment having a firearm, provided, the employee has permission from the owner or proprietor of the establishment.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 1142 (Representative Tammy Townley) </b>Removes the "open and unconcealed" language from the statute concerning the conditions under which firearms may be carried.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 1197 (Representative Tom Gann) </b>Adds zoos, botanical gardens, bus stations, bus terminals, bus stops, any vehicle operated by a transportation service for public use, and any property held by a public trust having a governmental
entity as a beneficiary to the allowed open carry location list.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 1214 (Representative Carl Newton)</b> Clarifies language detailing legal residency requirement for an Oklahoma handgun license.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 1258 (Representative Kyle Hilbert)</b> Allows any person issued an armed private investigator license or armed security guard license to carry a concealed or unconcealed firearm when on and off duty, provided the person is
in possession of a valid driver’s license and either a valid armed private investigator license or valid armed security guard license.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 2010 (Representative Garry Mize) </b>Prohibits the state or any state government entity from creating any order, policy, ordinance or regulation touching in any way firearm and ammunition components.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 2335 (Representative Sean Roberts)</b> Prohibits expenditure of public monies for publicity or propaganda opposing Second Amendment Rights.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 2336 (Representative Sean Roberts)</b> Allows a board of education of a school district to adopt a policy authorizing persons possessing a valid handgun license to carry a handgun onto school property, provided the individual
possess a valid armed security guard license and holds a valid reserve peace officer certification.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 2376 (Representative Chris Kannady) </b>Requires training for armed security guards to include how to prepare and respond to an active shooter crises.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 2457 (Representative Jason Dunnington and Representative Melissa Provenzano)</b> Creates the Oklahoma Extreme Risk Protective Order Act, setting a process for someone to seek a firearms restraining order with the petitioner
filing an affidavit or verified pleading alleging the respondent poses an immediate and present danger of causing personal injury to themselves or another by having custody of a controlled firearm or firearms.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 2597 (Representative Denise Crosswhite Hader, Representative Garry Mize, Representative Jay Steagall, Representative Jim Olsen, Representative Jon Echols, Representative Kevin McDugle, Representative Kevin West, Representative
Sean Roberts, Representative Tammy Townley, and Representative Tom Gann) </b>Makes Oklahoma a constitutional carry state. The bill permits a person at least 21 years of age or older, or 18 years of age but not yet 21 and a member or veteran of the United States
Armed Forces, Reserves or National Guard or was discharged under honorable conditions, and who is otherwise not disqualified from the possession or purchase of a firearm under state or federal law and is not carrying the firearm in furtherance of a crime to
carry a firearm, concealed or unconcealed, loaded or unloaded.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><o:p><span style="text-decoration:none"> </span></o:p></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Scholarships<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 1857 (Representative Andy Fugate) </b>Revises the household income limitations for the Oklahoma Equal Opportunity Education Scholarship to $60,000 per year from taxable and nontaxable sources.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 2521 (Representative Tammy West) </b>Creates the Oklahoma Educator Loan Repayment Program. It requires the State Department of Education to administer the program. It requires the program, depending upon and limited to available
funding, to provide educational loan repayment assistance to Oklahoma certified teachers who agree to work in a school district located in the state designated as a comprehensive support and improvement (CSI) school or targeted support and improvement (TSI)
school.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Teachers Retirement System</span></u></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 352 (Senator Dewayne Pemberton) </b>Provides for an 8 percent increase in retirement benefits for certain retirees in the Uniform Retirement System for Justices and Judges, the Oklahoma Firefighters Pension and Retirement
System, the Oklahoma Police Pension and Retirement System, the Teachers' Retirement System of Oklahoma, the Oklahoma Public Employees Retirement System and the Oklahoma Law Enforcement Retirement System. It establishes certain offsets.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to Senate Retirement and Insurance Committee.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 504 (Senator Michael Brooks</b>) Authorizes any employee, other than an education employee, who retires pursuant to the provisions of the Oklahoma Public Employees Retirement System or who has a vested benefit pursuant to
the provisions of the Oklahoma Public Employees Retirement System, to continue in force the health and dental insurance benefits authorized by the provisions of the Oklahoma Employees Insurance and Benefits Act.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 676 (Senator John Montgomery)</b> Modifies apportionment to the Teacher's Retirement System Dedicated Revenue Revolving Fund.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 697 (Senator Jason Smalley) </b>Requires a retired member of the Oklahoma Teachers' Retirement System who is employed by the State Department of Education for the first time on or after November 1, 2020, to have the option
to remain a member of the Teachers' Retirement System, subject to the limitations prescribed therein, or choose to participate in the Oklahoma Public Employees Retirement System as an active member.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 772 (Senator Adam Pugh)</b> Modifies and updates language related to the Teachers' Retirement System. The bill repeals language related to the minimum benefits for members who retire before Aug. 2, 1969.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 844 (Senator Gary Stanislawski</b>) Increases the annual maximum contribution to 18.5 percent to a retirement fund established by the board of county commissioners.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 850 (Senator Darrell Weaver)</b> Requires any person receiving benefits from the Teachers' Retirement System of Oklahoma as of June 30, 2020 to receive a 7 percent increase in benefits.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 852 (Senator Kim David)</b> Requires a 7 percent increase in benefits beginning July 1, 2020 for any person receiving benefits from the Oklahoma Public Employees Retirement System.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 889 (Senator John Montgomery)</b> Increases the amount paid to beneficiaries of the Oklahoma Public Employees Retirement System to $50.00 per month on Jan. 1, 2021.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 941 (Senator Dewayne Pemberton)</b> Requires public retirement systems to make a one-time distribution to members who have been retired for more than five years as of Oct. 1, 2019, of either the lesser of 2 percent or $1,000
if the funded ratio of the public retirement system would not be less than 60 percent.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 979 (Senator Mark Allen)</b> Modifies the definition of the term "average salary" for the purpose of calculating benefits under the Teachers' Retirement System.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 1090 (Representative Mike Osburn) </b>Allows the Teachers' Retirement System of Oklahoma to purchase service credits.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 1307 (Representative Matt Meredith) </b>Requires a 2 percent cost-of-living adjustment for people receiving benefits from the Oklahoma Firefighters Pension and Retirement System, the Oklahoma Police Pension and Retirement
System, the Uniform Retirement System for Justices and Judges, the Oklahoma law Enforcement Retirement System, the Teachers' Retirement System of Oklahoma and the Oklahoma Public Employees Retirement System.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b>House Bill 1358 (Representative David Smith)</b> Requires a 4 percent cost-of-living adjustment for the Oklahoma Police Pension and Retirement System as well as the Oklahoma Public Employees Retirement System.
OTRS is not included<b><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 1426 (Representative Ben Loring) </b>Provides for membership to the Oklahoma Firefighters Pension and Retirement System and the Oklahoma Police Pension and Retirement System by specified full-time firefighters and law enforcement
officers employed by federally recognized Native American tribes.<b><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 1427 (Representative Ben Loring</b>) Provides for membership to the Oklahoma Firefighters Pension and Retirement System and the Oklahoma Police Pension and Retirement System by specified full-time firefighters and law enforcement
officers employed by federally recognized Native American tribes.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b> </b><br>
<b>House Bill 2398 (Representative Chris Kannady) </b>Gives an 8 percent increase in public employee retirement benefits on July 1, 2019.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Shell Bills</span></u></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Appropriations: </b>HB2684, HB2685, HB2686, HB2687, HB2688, HB2689, HB2690, HB2691, HB2692, HB2693, HB2694, HB2695, HB2696, HB2697, HB2698, HB2699, HB2700, HB2701, HB2702, HB2703, HB2704, HB2705, HB2706, HB2707, HB2708, HB2709, HB2710,
HB2711, HB2712, HB2713, HB2714, HB2715, HB2716, HB2717, HB2718, HB2719, HB2720, HB2721, HB2722, HB2723, HB2724, HB2725, HB2726, HB2727, HB2728, HB2729, HB2730, HB2731, HB2732, HB2733<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Revenue: </b>HB1016,<b> </b>HB1017, HB1238, HB1239, HB1363, HB1371, HB2080, HB2102, HB2125, HB2162, HB2163, HB2164, HB2165, HB2682, HB2501, HB2502, HB2503, HB2504, HB2551, HB2559, HB2565, HB2573, HB2574<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Education:</b> HB1021, HB1049, HB1086, HB1139, HB1187, HB1195, HB1227, HB1247, HB1256, HB1267, HB1324, HB1331, HB1360, HB1362, HB1779, HB1780, HB1781, HB1782, HB1783, HB1905, HB1906, HB1907, HB1908, HB1958, HB1959, HB1980, HB1981, HB1985,
HB2003, HB2004, HB2005, HB2006, HB2007, HB2063, HB2069, HB2070, HB2124, HB2181, HB2198, HB2199, HB2204, HB2243, HB2244, HB2247, HB2319, HB2322, HB2342, HB2447, HB2470, HB2526, HB2527, HB2540, HB2594, HB2610, HB2625, HB2633, HB2646, HB2585, HB2655<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Government</b>: HB1096, HB1794, HB1795, HB1796, HB1797, HB1798, HB1799, HB1800, HB1801, HB1802, HB1803, HB1922, HB2034, HB2122, HB2126, HB2127, HB2283, HB2617, HB2620, HB2567<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Healthcare</b>: HB1087, HB1314, HB1325, HB1327, HB1329, HB1333, HB1336, HB1337, HB1338, HB1339, HB1340, HB1344, HB1345, HB1869, HB2541, HB2542, HB2543, HB2544, HB2552, HB2654, HB2656<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Economic Development:</b> HB1080, HB1081, HB1350, HB1351, HB1125<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Marijuana/Industrial Hemp: </b>HB1122, HB1172, HB1174, HB2054, HB2055, HB2056, HB2057, HB2058, HB2059, HB2085, HB2611, HB2612, HB2613, HB2614, HB2615, HB2627<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Public Safety/Campus Safety/Weapons</b>: HB2266, HB2678, HB2546<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Thank you.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Glen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">Glen D. Johnson</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Chancellor<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">655 Research Parkway, Suite 200<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73104<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">405.225.9122 <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:gjohnson@osrhe.edu">gjohnson@osrhe.edu</a><span style="color:black">
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