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<p class="MsoNormal">The only financial aid bill acted upon this week was HB 1821, which would make changes to the Oklahoma Tuition Aid Grant (OTAG; see bill information immediately below). The bill was approved in the Senate Education Committee. The bill
will next move to the Senate floor from where, if passed, it will head to the Governor for consideration.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">SB 639, related to a proposed “claw back” requirement for Oklahoma’s Promise, is still pending in the House Higher Education and Career Tech Committee. It has not been scheduled for a committee hearing yet.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Bryce Fair<o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">House Bill 1821 (Representative Toni Hasenbeck and Senator Dewayne Pemberton)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Increases flexibility in the use
of Tuition Aid Grants, by removing language directing the Regents for Higher Education to direct tuition aid grants to all eligible applicants, and adding factors to the way the awards are prioritized including: Enrollment status, unmet financial need, continuous
enrollment, nearness to degree completion or certificate, state employment needs, and eligibility for other State and institutional funds.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed House Higher Education and CareerTech Committee 9-0 on Monday, February 8. Passed off the House Floor 94-2 on Tuesday, March 2. Engrossed to Senate. Passed Senate Education
Committee 11-1 on Tuesday, March 23. </span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>Subject:</b> Legislative Update - March 26, 2021<o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">OKLAHOMA STATE REGENTS FOR HIGHER EDUCATION<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">To:
<a name="to1"></a>Higher Education Network<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">From:
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<a name="from"></a>Chancellor Glen D. Johnson<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Date:
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<a name="datea"></a>Friday, March 26, 2021<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Subject:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
<a name="re"></a>Legislative Update – March 26, 2021 <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="DE" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">The update below reflects the major legislation concerning Higher Education.
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">If you have any questions, please contact LeeAnna McNally, Vice Chancellor for Governmental Relations, at
</span><a href="mailto:lmcnally@osrhe.edu" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:blue">lmcnally@osrhe.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> or (405) 301-0332.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Legislative Report
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">March 26, 2021</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></b><b><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Agency Administration
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">House Bill 1090 (Representative Gerrid Kendrix and Senator Brent Howard)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Allows the State Auditor and Inspector
General to perform audits and inspections of government entities without authorization from the Governor, the Chief Executive Officer of a government entity, or a joint or concurrent resolution of the Legislature.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Assigned to House Rules Committee. Reassigned to House General Government Committee. Passed House General Government Committee 7-0 on Wednesday, February 17. Passed off the House
Floor 91-0 on Monday, March 1. Engrossed to Senate. Passed Senate Finance Committee 10-1 on Tuesday, March 23.</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">House Bill 1146 (Representative Mike Osburn and Senator Greg Treat)
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Places all state employee positions under the administration of the Human Capital Management Division of the Office of Management and Enterprise Services effective January 1, 2022,
except those employed by the Governor, Lt. Governor, Speaker of the House, or President Pro Tempore of the Senate, as well as elected officials, political appointees, and up to 5 percent of an agency's executive management.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed House Rules Committee 9-0 on Tuesday, February 23. Amended by Floor Substitute. Passed off the House floor 93-0 on Tuesday, March 9. Assigned to Senate Appropriations Committee.
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">House Bill 1602 (Representative Collin Walke and Senator John Michael Montgomery)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> The bill entitles a consumer
to request that a business that collects the consumer's personal information disclose to the consumer the categories and specific items of personal information the business has collected. It establishes a requirement for the consumer to request the information.
It establishes procedures for the business to disclose the information.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed House Technology Committee 6-0 on Wednesday, February 10. Passed off the House Floor 85-11 on Thursday, March 4. Engrossed to Senate. Assigned to Senate Judiciary Committee.
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">House Bill 1875 (Representative Tammy West and Senator Brenda Stanley)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Permits each educational institution to
choose to designate specific information which will be classified as directory information for students attending the educational institution.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed House General Government Committee 8-0 on Wednesday, February 10. Passed off the House Floor 92-0 on Monday, March 1. Engrossed to Senate. Passed Senate Judiciary Committee
9-0 on Tuesday, March 23. </span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">House Bill 1986 (Representative Judd Strom and Senator Bill Coleman)
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Requires any state agency that owns, operates or leases land in the state that is utilized for livestock grazing to enclose the area with a fence or another suitable means for the
portion that contains livestock, as well as maintaining the enclosure. The bill allows the state agency to enter into a labor cost-sharing contract with adjacent landowner provided the landowner is not otherwise responsible for the cost of the enclosure or
its maintenance.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed House Agriculture and Rural Development Committee 9-0 on Tuesday, February 16. Passed off the House Floor 92-4 on Tuesday, March 9. Engrossed to Senate. Dual Assigned to Senate
Agriculture and Wildlife Committee and Senate Appropriations Committee.</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">House Bill 2085 (Speaker Charles McCall and Senator David Bullard)
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Requires the Office of Management and Enterprise Services to display the national motto of the United States in a prominently visible location in all state buildings. The bill authorizes
the Oklahoma Attorney General to prepare and present a legal defense of the display.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed House States’ Rights Committee 5-1 on Wednesday, February 10. Passed off the House Floor 81-19 on Monday, March 1. Engrossed to Senate. Passed Senate General Government Committee
6-2 on Thursday, March 25. </span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">House Bill 2088 (Speaker Charles McCall and Senator Roger Thompson)
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Exempts the legislature and judicial branches of state government from any and all fees or costs for services rendered by state agencies.
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed House Rules Committee 9-0 on Tuesday, February 16. Passed off the House floor 94-0 on Tuesday, March 9. Engrossed to Senate. Assigned to Senate Appropriations Committee.</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> <b>House Bill 2180 (Representative Ronny Johns and Senator Greg McCortney)</b> Removes requirements for making payroll deductions for certain insurance premiums with a minimum participation
of 500 state employees.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Assigned to House Rules Committee. Reassigned to House Insurance Committee. Passed House Insurance Committee 7-0 on Wednesday, February 24. Passed off the House Floor 82-12 on Tuesday,
March 2. Engrossed to Senate. Assigned to Senate Finance Committee.</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">House Bill 2185 (Representative Ronny Johns and Greg McCortney)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Modifies the requirements of publications on
contracts awarded by state agencies to include the address of the company and the reason to be awarded the contract. Deletes explanations on the out of state ownership percentage of contracted companies.
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Assigned to House Rules Committee. Reassigned to House Government Modernization and Efficiency Committee. Passed Government Modernization and Efficiency Committee 9-0 on Tuesday,
February 23. Passed off the House Floor 88-3 on Tuesday, March 2. Engrossed to Senate. Assigned to Senate General Government Committee.</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">House Bill 2294 (Representative Dustin Roberts and Senator John Michael Montgomery)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Deletes the ability for employees
to accumulate more than the maximum annual leave. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed House General Government Committee 8-0 on Wednesday, February 10. Passed off the House Floor 98-0 on Monday, March 8. Engrossed to Senate. Dual Assigned to Senate General Government
Committee and Senate Appropriations Committee.</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">House Bill 2350 (Representative Jeff Boatman and Senator James Leewright)
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Creates a task force with the goal of creating a single repository of data for state agencies that currently have multiple data streams with redundancies. A goal of the task force
would be to create a five-year digital infrastructure plan.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed House Rules Committee 10-0 on Tuesday, February 23. Passed off House Floor 85-10 on Wednesday, March 10. Engrossed to Senate. Dual assigned to Senate General Government Committee
and Senate Appropriations Committee. </span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Senate Bill 41 (Senator Greg McCortney and Representative Ronny Johns)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Modifies the requirements for state employee
payroll deductions for private insurance organizations and service companies that provide legal services. It removes the requirement that the organizations and service companies that provide legal services be regulated by the State Insurance Commissioner and
have a minimum participation of 500 state employees.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed Senate Retirement and Insurance Committee 9-0 on Thursday, February18. Title Restored. Passed off the Senate Floor 44-0 on Thursday, March 4. Engrossed to House. Assigned to
House Banking, Financial Services and Pensions Committee.</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Senate Bill 63 (Senator John Michael Montgomery and Representative Avery Frix)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Removes language related to the
State Government Reduction-in-Force and Severance Benefits Act that requires an employee to repay all severance benefits on a proportional basis if an affected employee is reemployed by the agency from which separated as a result of a reduction-in-force<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed Senate General Government Committee 9-0 on Thursday, February 11. Passed off the Senate Floor 31-15 on Tuesday, March 2. Engrossed to House. Assigned to House Government Modernization
and Efficiency Committee.</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> <b>Senate Bill 282 (Senator Frank Simpson and Representative Tommy Hardin)</b> Amends Section 840-2.20 of the Oklahoma Personnel Act to allow for a temporary increase in the accumulation limits
for annual leave following an emergency declaration period, which shall carryover to the end of the fiscal year following the year in which the emergency declaration ended. increase and carryover of annual leave time<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed Senate General Government Committee 9-0 on Thursday, February 4. Passed Senate Appropriations Committee 19-0 on Thursday, February 18. Passed off the Senate Floor 42-1 on Tuesday,
March 9. Engrossed to Senate. Assigned to House Appropriations and Budget General Government Subcommittee then to Appropriations and Budget Committee.
</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Senate Bill 299 (Senator Micheal Bergstrom and Representative Mark Lepak)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Allows for cooperative “piggybacking”
purchase agreements between state agencies including on public construction contracts.
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed Senate General Government Committee 7-2 on Thursday, February 25. Passed off the Senate Floor 36-8 on Thursday, March 3. Engrossed to House. Assigned to House General Government
Committee.</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Senate Bill 333 (Senator Frank Simpson and Representative Tammy Townley)
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Amends Section 840-2.15 of the Oklahoma Personnel Act to allow for a temporary increase in the accumulation limits for compensatory time following an emergency declaration period,
which shall carryover to the end of the fiscal year following the year in which the emergency declaration ended. increase and carryover of annual leave time.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Assigned to Senate Business, Commerce and Tourism Committee. Reassigned to House General Government Committee. Passed House General Government Committee 8-0 on Thursday, February
18. Passed off the Senate Floor 42-1 on Thursday, March 4. Engrossed to House. Assigned to House Appropriations and Budget General Government Subcommittee then to Appropriations and Budget Committee.</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Senate Bill 403 (Senator Brenda Stanley and Representative Robert Manger)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Makes it unlawful for any person, alone
or in concert with others and without authorization, to willfully disturb, interfere or disrupt business of any political subdivision, which includes publicly posted meetings, or any political subdivision.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Assigned to Senate Public Safety Committee. Amended to make the bill an Emergency. Passed Public Safety Committee with a vote of 11-0 on Monday, February 8. Passed off the Senate
Floor 36-9 on Tuesday, March 2. Engrossed to House. Assigned to House Public Safety Committee.</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Senate Bill 459 (Senator Lonnie Paxton and Representative Ty Burns)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Amends the Standards for Workplace Drug and
Alcohol testing in light of medical marijuana.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed Senate Business, Commerce and Tourism Committee 10-3 on Thursday, February 18. Passed off the Senate Floor 45-0 on Tuesday, March 9. Engrossed to House. Assigned to House Business
and Commerce Committee.<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> <b>Senate Bill 650 (Senator Kim David and Representative Jon Echols)</b> Provides a 2 percent increase to the amount of a participant’s benefit allowance from the amount provided in the previous
plan year. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed Senate Retirement and Insurance Committee 8-1 on Thursday, February 18. Passed Senate Appropriations Committee 18-0 on Wednesday, February 24. Passed off the Senate Floor 41-4
on Monday, March 8. Engrossed to House. Passed House Appropriations and Budget Committee 26-0 on Wednesday, March 24. Title Stricken.</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Senate Bill 794 (Senator James Leewright and Representative Kevin Wallace)
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Requires that if the Oklahoma Employment Security Commission or its representative determines that an individual has been overpaid unemployment benefits to provisions therein relating
to administrative overpayment, the individual must be sent a notice of overpayment determination. It allows that if the individual disagrees with this determination, said individual can file an appeal of the determination with the Appeal Tribunal within 10
days after the date of mailing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Assigned to Senate Appropriations Committee and Senate Business, Commerce and Tourism Committee. Passed Business, Commerce and Tourism Committee 12-0 on Thursday, February 11. Passed
off the Senate Floor 46-0 on Tuesday, March 9. Engrossed to House. Assigned to House Government Modernization and Efficiency Committee.
</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Senate Bill 895 (Senator Paul Rosino and Representative Chris Kannady)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Allows state agencies to choose to have
required audits performed by a public accountant or certified public accountant registered to do business with the state.
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Assigned to Senate Finance Committee. Reassigned to House General Government Committee. Passed House General Government Committee 7-2 on Thursday, February 18. Passed off the Senate
Floor 36-9 on Tuesday, March 9. Engrossed to House. </span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Senate Bill 924 (Senator Greg Treat and Representative Kyle Hilbert)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Creates a state data definition and gives
OMES the authority to determine when state data is allowed to be shared between agencies or with federal entities if a request to share is initially rejected.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed Senate General Government Committee 6-0 on Thursday, February 18. Passed off the Senate Floor 46-1 on Wednesday, March 10. Engrossed to House. Assigned to House Technology
Committee. <o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Senate Bill 984 (Senator Kim David and Representative Terry O’Donnell)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Prohibits an agency or official of the
executive branch from entering into a contingency fee contract that provides for the private attorney or firm to receive an aggregate contingency fee that exceeds amounts specified therein. It prohibits the total fee payable to all retained private attorneys
in any contingency fee contract from exceeding $50 million exclusive of any costs and expenses provided by the contract and actually incurred by the retained private attorneys, regardless of the number of actions or proceedings or the number of retained private
attorneys involved in the matter.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed Senate Judiciary Committee 7-2 on Tuesday, February 23. Passed off the Senate Floor 38-6 on Tuesday, March 9. Engrossed to House. Assigned to House Rules Committee.
</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Senate Concurrent Resolution 2 (Senator Rob Standridge)
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Requires the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education to submit a report to the Legislature and to make the report available on its website by December 31, 2021, that includes
a list of all persons employed in a faculty or teaching position including their position rank at their respective institutions within the Oklahoma State System of Higher Education and their compensation during the 2020-2021 academic year; a list of the courses
taught and the hours taught by persons employed in a faculty or teaching position at institutions within the Oklahoma State System of Higher Education during the 2020-2021 academic year; the tenure policy of each institution within the Oklahoma State System
of Higher Education for the 2020-2021 academic year; and the number of faculty employed by each institution within the Oklahoma State System of Higher Education who had tenure during the 2020-2021 academic year.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Update: Not assigned to committee. </u><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><u><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Budget Bills</span></u></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">House Bill 1665 (Representative Kevin West and Senator Chuck Hall)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Creates a Federal Funds Holding Account within
the General Revenue Fund to receive all funds required to be paid to the State of Oklahoma.
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed House Appropriations and Budget Committee 20-10 on Wednesday, February 24, Title Stricken. Passed off the House Floor 86-12 on Wednesday, March 3. Engrossed to Senate. Assigned
to Senate Appropriations Committee.</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">House Bill 1990 (Representative Trey Caldwell and Senator John Michael Montgomery)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Allows ad valorem reimbursement
fund to be used to reimburse counties for loss of revenue. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Assigned to House Appropriations and Budget Committee. Direct to Appropriations Committee. Passed House Appropriations Committee 28-0 Thursday, February 18. Passed off the House Floor
65-30 on Tuesday, March 2. Engrossed to Senate. Dual Assigned to Senate Finance Committee and Senate Appropriations Committee.</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">House Bill 2086 (Speaker Charles McCall and Senator Zack Taylor)
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Enterprise Services to ensure state agencies are charged no more than the actual cost of the services provided by the Office.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed House Rules Committee 9-0 Tuesday, February 16. Passed off the House Floor 94-0 on Thursday, March 11. Engrossed to Senate. Assigned to Senate Appropriations Committee.</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">House Bill 2775 (Representative John Pfeiffer and Senator John Michael Montgomery)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Adds to the definition of
“Cost Approach” in the ad valorem tax code to include physical deterioration, functional or internal obsolescence, and economic or external obsolescence.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed House County and Municipal Government Committee 9-0 on Monday, February 22. Passed off the House Floor 92-0 on Wednesday, March 3. Engrossed to Senate. Assigned to Senate Finance
Committee.</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">House Bill 2776 (Representative John Pfeiffer and Senator John Michael Montgomery)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Creates the Ad Valorem School
District Support Revolving Fund which shall consist of all ad valorem funds under protest received by the State Department of Education (SDE). The SDE may distribute this money to school districts which are affected by protested ad valorem taxes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Amended by Committee Substitute. Passed House Rules Committee 7-2 on Thursday, February 25. Passed off the House Floor 90-0 on Wednesday, March 10. Engrossed to Senate. Passed Education
Subcommittee 6-0 on Wednesday, March 24. Title StrickenReferred to full Senate Appropriations Committee.</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">House Bill 2777 (Representative John Pfeiffer and Senator John Michael Montgomery)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Allows for wind power valuation
for real property and personal property in the ad valorem tax code. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed House County and Municipal Government Committee 9-0 on Monday, February 22.
<a name="x_x__Hlk66291018">Title Stricken. Passed off the House Floor 93-0 on Wednesday, March 10.</a> Engrossed to Senate. Assigned to Senate Finance Committee.</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">House Bill 2780 (Representative John Pfeiffer and Senator Dave Rader)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Allows the Oklahoma Tax Commission to garnish
accrued earnings of a delinquent taxpayer by contacting the taxpayer’s employer.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed House Appropriations and Budget Committee 27-3 on Wednesday, February 24. Passed off the House Floor 78-18 on Monday, March 8. Engrossed to Senate. Passed Senate Finance Committee
11-0 on Tuesday, March 23. Passed Senate Appropriations Committee 19-0 on Wednesday, March 24.
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">House Joint Resolution 1001 (Representative Andy Fugate and Senator John Michael Montgomery)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Proposes a vote
of the people on a constitutional amendment that changes the way the maximum Constitutional Reserve (Rainy Day) Fund balance amount would be computed. It would require the maximum balance allowed be based on a percentage of total state expenditures instead
of using revenue estimates provided by the State Board of Equalization for the annual appropriations process. It would provide that total expenditures include all appropriated monies and federal funds. It would exclude from total expenditures money from revolving
funds which are used by state agencies, fees or similar charges that were not derived from tax revenue, and money obtained by issuing state government bonds.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed House Rules Committee 9-0 Tuesday, February 16. Passed off the House Floor 93-0 on Thursday, March 11. Engrossed to Senate.
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Senate Bill 79 (Senator Roger Thompson and Representative Kevin West)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Exempts from sales tax the transfer of
tangible personal property to or by nonprofit 501(c)(3) entities that have entered into a joint operating agreement with the University Hospitals Trust.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Assigned to Senate Appropriations Committee. Amended to provide an effective date of July 1, 2022. Passed Senate Appropriations Committee as amended 20-0 on Thursday, February 18.
Passed off the Senate Floor 44-1 on Tuesday, March 2. Engrossed to House. Passed House Appropriations and Budget Committee 28-0 on Wednesday, March 24.
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Senate Bill 181 (Senator Zack Taylor and Representative Brad Boles)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Permits more than one-half of ad valorem
taxes to be paid by January 1 of each year.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed Senate Finance Committee 12-0 Tuesday, February 2. Passed off Senate Floor 46-0 on Tuesday, February 9. Engrossed to House. Assigned to House County and Municipal Government
Committee. </span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Senate Bill 383 (Senator Robert Standridge and Representative Kevin West)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Establishes that the owner or operator
of a social media website who contracts with users in Oklahoma is subject to a private right of action by a social media website user if the social media website purposely deletes or censors a social media website user’s political speech or religious speech
or uses an algorithm to suppress political speech or religious speech.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed Senate Judiciary Committee 5-3 on Tuesday, February 23. Passed off the Senate Floor 34-12 on Thursday, March 11. Engrossed to House. Assigned to House Technology Committee.
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Senate Bill 498 (Senator Roger Thompson and Representative Scott Fetgatter)
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Permits a facility engaged in cement manufacturing to have the payroll requirements of the five-year ad valorem tax exemption waived for tax year 2021, which is based in part on the
2020 calendar year payroll reported to the Oklahoma Employment Security Commission and permits it to continue to receive the exemption for the five-year period only if all other requirements of this section are met.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed Senate Finance Committee 12-0 on Tuesday, February 9. Referred to Full Appropriations Committee. Laid over. Passed Senate Appropriations Committee 18-0 on Wednesday, March
3. Passed off the Senate Floor 44-1 on Tuesday, March 9. Engrossed to House. Assigned to House Revenue and Taxation Subcommittee then House Appropriations and Budget Committee.
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Senate Bill 609 (Senator Chuck Hall and Representative Kyle Hilbert)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Extends the ad valorem tax exemption to
manufacturing facilities, doubles the acquisition or expansion limit. Adds definitions to manufacturing facilities.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed Senate Finance Committee 11-0 on Tuesday, February 9. Passed Senate Appropriations Committee 19-0 on Thursday, February 18. Passed off the Senate Floor 33-1 on Tuesday, March
2. Engrossed to House. Assigned to House Appropriations and Budget Committee. </span>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> <b>Senate Bill 906 (Senator Casey Murdock and Representative Todd Russ)</b> Provides allowances for depreciation of value in ad valorem tax consideration.
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed Senate Finance Committee 9-2 on Friday, February 19. Passed off the Senate Floor 44-0 on Tuesday, March 9. Engrossed to House. Assigned to House Revenue and Taxation Subcommittee
then to House Appropriations and Budget Committee.</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Senate Joint Resolution 14 (Senator Joe Newhouse)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Puts to a vote of the people increasing the cap on the Constitutional
Reserve Fund from 15 percent to 30 percent. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Assigned to Senate Rules Committee.</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Senate Joint Resolution 16 (Senator Micheal Bergstrom</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">) Changes the way maximum balance allowed for the rainy-day
fund from using the Board of Equalization estimates to a percentage of a total of the state expenditures for the previous year including all state and federal funds.
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Assigned to Senate Rules Committee.</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">CareerTech</span></u></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">House Bill 1026 (Representative Rande Worthen and Senator John Michael Montgomery)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Allows CLEET to establish
and certify additional law enforcement and criminal justice programs at state-supported technology center schools in the State of Oklahoma operating under the State Board of Career and Technology Education for teaching students between 16 and 19 years of age.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed House Public Safety Committee 7-0 on Tuesday, February 23. Passed off the House Floor 97-0 on Monday, March 8.</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
<u>Engrossed to Senate. Assigned to Senate Public Safety Committee.</u><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Common Education</span></u></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">House Bill 1027 (Representative Trish Ranson and Senator Brenda Stanley)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Requires de-escalation training for
certified teachers, beginning in the 2022-2023 school year. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed House Common Education Committee 13-0 on Tuesday, February 16. Passed off the House Floor 81-11 on Tuesday, March 2. Engrossed to Senate. Assigned to Senate Education Committee.</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">House Bill 1046 (Representative Dell Kerbs and Senator John Michael Montgomery)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Requires a copy or a hyperlink
to a copy of the most recent audit of the financial statements of a school district to be on the front page of the school district website for public inspection.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed House Common Education Committee 14-0 on Tuesday, February 23. Passed off the House Floor as amended 95-0 on Wednesday, March. 3 Engrossed to Senate. Assigned to Senate Education
Committee. </span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">House Bill 1073 (Representative Tom Gann and Senator Nathan Dahm)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Extends the sunset date for the Oklahoma Partnership
for School Readiness Board until July 1, 2024.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed House Administrative Rules Committee 10-0 on Wednesday, February 10. Passed off the House Floor 89-2 on Wednesday, March 3. Engrossed to Senate. Passed Senate Education Committee
12-0 on Tuesday, March 23.</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">House Bill 1103 (Representative Mark Vancuren and Senator John Haste)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Directs the Department of Mental Health
and Substance Abuse Services and the State Education Department to create a set of guidelines and provide directions to schools in order to survey every public school student in grades 6,8,10 and 12 with the Oklahoma Prevention Needs Assessment Survey every
other year beginning in the 2022-2023 school year.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed House Common Education Committee 12-0 on Tuesday, February 16. Amended to remove private schools. Passed off the House Floor 78-19 on Tuesday, March 9. Engrossed to Senate.
Dual Assigned to Senate Education Committee and Senate Appropriations Committee.</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">House Bill 1104 (Representative Mark Vancuren and Senator John Michael Montgomery)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Requires information on a
student's tribal affiliation to be included in student data collected for the state.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed House Common Education Committee on 12-0 Tuesday, February 16. Passed off the House Floor 94-0 on Monday, March 1. Engrossed to Senate. Passed Senate Education Committee 11-1
on Tuesday, March 23.</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">House Bill 1568 (Representative Jeff Boatman and Senator John Haste)
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Creates Maria’s Law requiring collaboration with the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services to adopt standards and approve age-appropriate curriculum for K-12 students
as a part of normal health education curriculum.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed House Common Education Committee 14-0 on Tuesday, February 23. Passed off the House Floor 84-10 with Title Stricken on Wednesday, March 3. Engrossed to Senate. Dual Assigned
to Senate Education Committee and Senate Appropriations Committee.</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">House Bill 1569 (Representative Jacob Rosecrants and Senator Adam Pugh)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Creates the Oklahoma Play to Learn Act.
States that the intention of the Legislature is to focus on the importance of child-centered, play-based learning.
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed House Common Education Committee 14-0 on Tuesday, February 9. Passed off the House Floor 76-16 on Tuesday, March 9. Engrossed to Senate. Passed Senate Education Committee 10-2
on Tuesday, March 23.</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">House Bill 1775 (Representative Sherrie Conley and Senator Jessica Garvin)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Creates Riley's Rule, a requirement
that each athletic and practice facility create an emergency action plan. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Assigned to House Common Education Committee. Laid Over. Passed House Common Education Committee 14-0 on Thursday, February 25. Passed off the House Floor 93-0 on Wednesday, March
3. Engrossed to Senate. Assigned to Senate Education Committee. </span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">House Bill 1882 (Representative Marilyn Stark and Senator Dave Rader)
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Creates the "Out-of-Schooltime" task force to identify, evaluate and recommend a set of best practices for children, youth and families to improve and increase the number of quality,
affordable out-of-school programs in the state. The bill sets the membership of the committee.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed House Children, Youth and Family Services Committee as amended by Committee Substitute 5-0 on Tuesday, February 23. Passed off the House Floor 82-14 on Tuesday, March 9. Engrossed
to Senate. Dual Assigned to Senate Education Committee and Senate Appropriations Committee.</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">House Bill 1963 (Representative Jadine Nollan and Senator Brenda Stanley)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> If vacancies occur which result in
a loss of majority members of the board of education of a school district or technology center school district, the Governor shall appoint a member or members necessary to constitute a quorum to the board of education.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Assigned to House Elections and Ethics Committee. Laid Over. Passed House Elections and Ethics Committee 7-0 on Thursday, February 25. Passed off the House Floor 80-16 on Tuesday,
March 2. Engrossed to Senate. Passed Senate Rules Committee 9-1 on Wednesday, March 24.</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">House Bill 1968 (Representative Jadine Nollan and Senator Brenda Stanley)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Deletes expenditure and program classification
reporting requirements for certain gifted and talented programs. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed House Appropriations and Budget Committee 13-0 on Monday, February 8. Referred to full House Appropriations Committee. Laid Over. Passed House Appropriations Committee 30-0
on Wednesday, February 24. Passed off the Senate Floor 80-0 on Wednesday, March 3. Engrossed to Senate. Passed Senate Education Committee 12-0 on Tuesday, March 23.</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">House Bill 2030 (Representative Terry O’Donnell and Senator Adam Pugh)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Adds passing the Naturalization test to
high school graduation requirements. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed House Common Education Committee 11-3 on Tuesday, February 16. Passed off the House Floor 80-18 on Monday, March 8. Engrossed to Senate. Dual Assigned to Senate Education Committee
and Senate Appropriations Committee. </span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">House Bill 2223 (Representative Randy Randleman and Senator Dewayne Pemberton)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Requires the Oklahoma State Department
of Education to maintain a dyslexia information handbook. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed House Common Education Committee 14-0 on Tuesday, February 9. Passed off the House Floor 96-0 on Monday, March 8. Engrossed to Senate. Passed Senate Education Committee 12-0
on Tuesday, March 23.</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">House Bill 2381 (Representative Danny Sterling and Senator Frank Simpson)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Directs local school districts to conduct
an annual fitness assessment. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed House Appropriations and Budget Committee 22-9 on Wednesday, February 25. Title Stricken. Passed off the House Floor 57-37 on Wednesday, March 3. Engrossed to Senate. Dual
Assigned to Senate Education Committee and Senate Appropriations Committee.</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">House Bill 2388 (Representative John Talley and Senator Tom Dugger)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Asks school districts to provide age-appropriate
instruction about social-emotional learning. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Assigned to House Rules Committee. Reassigned to House Common Education Committee. Passed House Common Education Committee 14-0 on Tuesday, February 23. Passed off the House Floor
70-22 on Wednesday, March 2. Engrossed to Senate. Assigned to Senate Education Committee.</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">House Bill 2396 (Representative Todd Russ and Senator Brenda Stanley)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Asks the board of education to adopt a
policy regarding sex trafficking and exploitation prevention. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed House Common Education Committee 14-0 on Tuesday, February 9. Passed off the House Floor 86-6 on Tuesday, March 2. Engrossed to Senate. Assigned to Senate Education Committee.</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">House Bill 2462 (Representative Dick Lowe and Senator Brent Howard)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Allows the State Department of Education
to enter into contracts and agreements for the payment of food, lodging and other expenses necessary to host or participate in conferences and training sessions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed House General Government Committee 7-0 on Wednesday, February 17</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">.
<u>Passed off the House Floor 86-5 on Monday, March 1. Engrossed to Senate</u>. <u>
Dual Assigned to Senate Education Committee and Senate Appropriations Committee.</u> Passed Senate Education Committee 11-1 on Tuesday, March 23. Passed Senate Appropriations Committee 20-0 on Wednesday, March 24.
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">House Bill 2662 (Representative Dick Lowe and Senator Dave Rader)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Creates the Seizure Safe Schools Act requiring
each local school district to have at least one school employee at each school who has met certain seizure safe training requirements.
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Assigned to House Common Education Committee. Amended to change from a Shall to a May. Passed House Common Education Committee 12-0 on Tuesday, February 16. Author change. Passed
off the House Floor 95-0 on Wednesday, March 3. Engrossed to Senate. Dual Assigned to Senate Education Committee and Senate Appropriations Committee. Withdrawn from Appropriations Committee.
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">House Bill 2727 (Representative Ajay Pittman and Senator David Bullard</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">) Requires subject to the availability
of funds that there be a basic life skills education curriculum taught in public schools.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed House Common Education Committee 14-0 on Tuesday, February 23. Passed off the House Floor 67-26 on Wednesday, March 10. Engrossed to Senate. Dual Assigned to Senate Education
Committee and Senate Appropriations Committee.</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">House Bill 2749 (Representative Rhonda Baker and Senator Adam Pugh)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Requires schools that receive more than $2,500
from the Reading Proficiency Act to spend at least 10 percent on professional development for Pre-k-5 grade teachers.
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed House Common Education Committee 12-0 on Tuesday February 16. Passed off the House Floor 90-5 on Tuesday, March 2. Engrossed to Senate. Dual Assigned to Senate Education Committee
and Senate Appropriations Committee.</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">House Joint Resolution 1026 (Representative Anthony Moore)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Puts to a vote of the people a constitutional amendment
that removes debt limits for school districts. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Assigned to House Rules Committee.</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">House Joint Resolution 1029 (Representative Monroe Nichols)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Puts to a vote of the people a constitutional amendment
that authorizes a school district to raise an additional $5 million levy on taxable property within the district if approved by the majority of district voters.
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Assigned to House Rules Committee.</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">House Joint Resolution 1033 (Representative Chad Caldwell)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Puts to a vote of the people a requirement that a
school spends at least 60 percent of its annual budget on instructional expenditures.
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Assigned to House Rules Committee.</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Senate Bill 2 (Senator Micheal Bergstrom and Representative Toni Hasenbeck)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Clarifies and expands the duties
of the School Finance Review Commission to conduct a review of all matters related to school finance, including but not limited to teacher compensation and benefits; administrative costs, including administrative functions that may be shared between districts;
opportunities for school districts to be operated in a cost effective manner; variances in per pupil and administrative expenditures among school districts with comparable enrollment, demographics and outcomes on statewide assessments; and expenditures not
directly or sufficiently related to improving student outcomes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed Senate Education Committee 11-1 on Tuesday, February 23. Passed off the Senate Floor 38-8 on Monday, March 1. Engrossed to House. Assigned to House Common Education Committee.
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Senate Bill 13 (Senator Brenda Stanley and Representative Rhonda Baker)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Requires a teacher whose certificate
is suspended by the State Board of Education to be placed on suspension while proceedings for revocation or other action are pending before the State Board of Education.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed Senate Education Committee 12-0 on Tuesday, February 23. Passed off the Senate Floor 46-0 on Monday, March 1. Engrossed to House.</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
<u>Assigned to House Common Education Committee. </u><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Senate Bill 21 (Senator Kay Floyd and Representative Marcus McEntire)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Makes it a requirement, rather than permissive,
beginning with the 2021-2022 school year, that district school boards provide schoolwide training to all students in grades seven through twelve and staff addressing suicide awareness and prevention.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed Senate Education Committee as amended by Committee Substitute 12-0 on Tuesday, February 9. Passed off the Senate Floor 45-0 on Tuesday, March 9. Engrossed to House. Assigned
to House Common Education Committee. </span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Senate Bill 54 (Senator John Michael Montgomery and Representative Daniel Pae</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">) Requires the State Department
of Education to designate a school district site or charter school site as a Purple Star School. The bill defines applicable terms. It establishes the requirements for a school district site or charter school to be designated as a Purple Star School. It requires
the State Board of Education to promulgate necessary rules.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed Senate Veterans and Military Affairs Committee 10-0 on Thursday, February 11. Passed off the Senate Floor 46-0 on Tuesday, March 2. Engrossed to House. Assigned to House Common
Education Committee. </span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Senate Bill 66 (Senator John Haste and Representative Lonnie Sims)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Exempts any insurance policy sold to any school
district from the surplus lines premium tax.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed Senate Retirement and Insurance Committee 9-0 on Monday, February 8. Passed off the Senate Floor 45-0 on Monday, March 1. Engrossed to House. Assigned to House Insurance Committee.</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Senate Bill 68 (Senator Frank Simpson and Representative Max Wolfley)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Requires a public school student to be
considered in compliance with statutory residency provisions if he or she is a student whose parent or legal guardian is transferred or is pending transfer to a military installation within the state while on active military duty pursuant to an official military
order.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed Senate Education Committee 12-0 on Tuesday, February 2. Passed off the Senate Floor 46-0 on Thursday, March 4. Engrossed to House. Assigned to House Common Education Committee.</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Senate Bill 89 (Senator John Haste and Representative Rhonda Baker)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Creates the Health Education Act. The bill
defines applicable terms. It requires health education to be taught in public schools, including but not limited to physical health, mental health, social and emotional health and intellectual health.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed Senate Education Committee 11-1 on Tuesday, February 23. Passed off the Senate Floor 42-1 on Thursday, March 11. Engrossed to House. Assigned to House Common Education Committee.
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Senate Bill 128 (Senator Dave Rader and Representative Dick Lowe)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Creates the Seizure Safe Schools Act requiring
at least one school employee at each school to meet certain training requirements.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Assigned to Senate Education Committee. Title Stricken, Amended by Committee Substitute. Passed 12-0 on Tuesday, February 9. Passed off the Senate Floor 47-0 on Wednesday, March 3.
Engrossed to House. Assigned to House Common Education Committee. </span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Senate Bill 252 (Senator Brenda Stanley and Representative Rhonda Baker)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Requires all public schools to begin
teaching computer science courses in the 2024-2025 school year. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Assigned to Senate Education Committee. Title Stricken. Passed Senate Education Committee 12-0 on Tuesday, February 2. Passed off the Senate Floor 41-0 on Tuesday, March 9. Engrossed
to House. Assigned to House Common Education Committee. </span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Senate Bill 419 (Senator J.J. Dossett and Representative John Waldron)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Removes the requirement to administer
assessments in U.S. history under the statewide system of student assessments.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed Senate Education Committee 10-0 on Tuesday, February 23. Passed off the Senate Floor 43-2 on Tuesday, March 2. Engrossed to House. Assigned to House Common Education Committee.
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Senate Bill 503 (Senator Nathan Dahm and Representative Ryan Martinez</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">) Adds to required history curriculum, the
Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights, substantive selections from the Federalist Papers, the Emancipation Proclamation, the Articles of Confederation, the Gettysburg Address and George Washington’s Farewell Address.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed Senate Education Committee 9-2 on Tuesday, February 23. Passed off the Senate Floor 39-7 on Wednesday, March 3. Engrossed to House.</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Senate Bill 619 (Senator David Bullard and Representative Kevin West)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Allows school districts to obtain liability
insurance coverage to protect a student participating in an apprenticeship internship or mentorship program.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Assigned to Senate Education Committee. Title Stricken Passed Senate Education Committee 12-0 on Tuesday, February 2. Passed Senate Appropriations Committee 20-0 on Wednesday, February
24. Title Restored. Passed off the Senate Floor 47-0 on Thursday, March 4. Engrossed to House. Assigned to House Common Education Committee.</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Senate Bill 634 (Senator Julie Daniels and Representative Terry O’Donnell</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">) Requires an authorization form that
has the statement of understanding of the first amendment rights to not be a part of a union for public education employees. Makes that form’s authorization a yearly requirement.
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Assigned to Senate Education Committee. Reassigned to Senate Judiciary Committee. Passed Senate Judiciary 7-4 on Tuesday, February 23. Passed off the Senate Floor 25-21 on Thursday,
March 4. Emergency Passed 32-14 on Thursday, March 4. Engrossed to House. Assigned to House Rules Committee.
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Senate Bill 642 (Senator Adam Pugh and Representative Dustin Roberts)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Includes multi-aptitude battery assessments
that measure developed abilities and help predict future academic and occupational success in the military.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed Senate Education Committee 11-0 on Tuesday, February 23. Title Stricken. Passed off the Senate Floor 42-0 on Tuesday, March 9. Engrossed to House.</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Senate Bill 783 (Senator Adam Pugh and Representative Brad Boles)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Requires the Department of Education to publish
a list of the capacity for a class in each grade level K-12. Strengthens open transfer policies. Gives OEQA audit authority over transfer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed Senate Education Committee 9-3 on Tuesday, February 23. Amended by Committee Substitute. Passed off the Senate Floor 32-15 on Tuesday, March 2. Engrossed to House.</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Senate Bill 807 (Senator Chris Kidd and Representative Rhonda Baker)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Entitles support employees to pay for any
time lost when a school district is closed because of an epidemic or when an order for such a closing has been issued by a health officer authorized by law to issue the order.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed Senate Education Committee 10-1 on Tuesday, February 23. Passed off the Senate Floor 42-1 Tuesday, March 9. Engrossed to House. Assigned to House Common Education Committee.
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Senate Joint Resolution 3 (Senator Carri Hicks)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Proposes a vote of the people on a constitutional amendment that
allows a member of the Legislature to be employed as a certified teacher with a public school district in this state after he or she completes his or her term in office.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Senate Joint Resolution 9 (Senator Mary Boren)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Puts to a vote of the people a constitutional amendment that changes
the duty of the legislature when it comes to public education. Removes the words “Wherein all the children of the State may be educated”. Instead requires the legislature to “make suitable provision for the support and maintenance of an efficient and equitable
system of free public schools”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">COVID-19</span></u></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">House Bill 2335 (Representative Jay Steagall and Senator Shane Jett)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Prohibits compulsory immunization through
any state entity via direct or indirect means. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed House Public Health Committee 7-1 on Wednesday, February 10. Passed off the House floor 71-25 on Tuesday, March 9. Engrossed to Senate. Assigned to Senate Health and Human
Services Committee.</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">House Joint Resolution 1032 (Representative Chad Caldwell)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Puts to a vote of the people a constitutional amendment
prohibiting a governmental entity from issuing any order or rule that requires closure of any place of worship.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Assigned to House Rules Committee.</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Senate Bill 368 (Senator David Bullard and Representative Brian Hill)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Prohibits any governmental declaration
of a religious institution as nonessential. Requires that religious institutions be exempt from closure orders for the purpose of health or security that is greater than that imposed on any private entity.
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed Senate Judiciary Committee 6-2 on Tuesday, February 9. Passed off the Senate Floor 37-9 on Thursday, March 11. Engrossed to House. Assigned to House States Rights Committee.
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<b><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Charter Schools</span></u></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">House Joint Resolution 1036 (Representative Jon Echols)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Puts to a vote of the people a constitutional amendment
allowing a school district to become indebted after a 3/5ths vote to acquire or improve the school sites or equipment of a charter school.
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Assigned to House Rules Committee.</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Senate Bill 69 (Senator Frank Simpson and Representative Max Wolfley)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Provides a student will be eligible to
enroll in a statewide virtual charter school if the student's parent or legal guardian is transferred or is pending transfer to a military installation within this state while on active military duty pursuant to an official military order.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Assigned to Senate Education Committee. Passed Senate Education Committee 12-0 on Tuesday, February 2. Passed off the Senate Floor 46-0 on Thursday, March 4. Engrossed to House. Assigned
to House Common Education Committee. </span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Senate Bill 222 (Senator Rob Standridge and Representative Daniel Pae)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Creates the Hope Scholarship Program to
provide a scholarship to an eligible private school of choice for students who have experienced bullying.
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Assigned to Senate Education Committee. Amended by Committee Substitute. Passed Senate Education Committee 11-1 on Tuesday, February 23. Passed Senate Appropriations Committee 20-0
on Monday, March 1. Passed off the Senate Floor 44-1 on Thursday, March 11. Engrossed to House. Assigned to House Common Education Committee.</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Senate Bill 239 (Senator Dewayne Pemberton and Representative Toni Hasenbeck)
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Creates a process for the State Board of Education to hear appeals to the charter school sponsorship process.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Assigned to Senate Education Committee. Passed Senate Education Committee 11-1 on Tuesday, February 2. Passed off the Senate Floor 30-16 on Wednesday, February 10. Engrossed to House.
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Senate Bill 658 (Senator Nathan Dahm and Representative Kevin West)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Requires the State Department of Education
to provide any notice or publication on immunization requirements all information on exemptions to such requirements.
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Assigned to Senate Education Committee. Amended to pass Senate Education Committee 8-3 on Tuesday, February 9. Passed off the Senate Floor 35-10 on Thursday, March 4. Emergency Passed
36-9 on Thursday, March 4. Engrossed to House. Assigned to House Common Education Committee. Withdrawn from Common Education Committee. Assigned to House Public Health Committee.
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<b><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">General Government</span></u></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Senate Joint Resolution 1 (Senator Kay Floyd)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Proposes a vote of the people on a constitutional amendment that
would prohibit members of the Legislature from being appointed or elected to any office or commission during their term; receiving any appointment from the Governor, the Governor and Senate or the Legislature during the term; or being interested in any contract
with the state or a political subdivision during the term. It would not prohibit an employee of a school district, a technology center school district or the Oklahoma State System of Higher Education from continuing to serve during the term, or prohibit an
appointment to a legislative committee or other legislative position. It also would not prohibit a former member from returning to his or her profession or business. It would permit the Legislature to enact laws to implement these provisions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">House Bill 1801 (Representative Nicole Miller and Senator Brenda Stanley)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Grants priority enrollment and course
registration to all Oklahoma resident members of the Oklahoma National Guard and to students who are eligible to receive educational financial assistance from the Department of Veteran Affairs.
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed House Higher Education and CareerTech Committee 9-0 on Monday, February 8. Amended to allow only Oklahoma residents. Passed off the House Floor as amended 98-1 on Monday, March
8. Engrossed to Senate. Assigned to Senate Education Committee.</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">House Bill 1962 (Representative Jadine Nollan and Senator Marty Quinn)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Specifies the definition of “qualified
higher education expenses” to fall in line with section 529 of the Internal Revenue Code.
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed House Higher Education and CareerTech Committee with a vote of 9-0 on Monday, February 8. Passed off the House Floor 95-0 on Tuesday, March 2. Engrossed to Senate. Assigned
to Senate Education Committee.</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">House Bill 1965 (Representative Jadine Nolan and Senator Darrell Weaver)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Allows a board of county commissioners
to determine the years of service required for full-time county employees to qualify for a continuing education program and allows such programs to include courses offered by a college or university that is a member of the Oklahoma State System of Higher Education
as well as any other in-state or out-of-state programs or courses which are relevant to the employee's responsibilities as approved by the county commissioners.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed House County and Municipal Government Committee 9-0 on Monday, February 8. Passed off the House Floor as amended 95-0 on Monday, March 8. Engrossed to Senate. Assigned to Senate
General Government Committee.</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">House Bill 2046 (Speaker Charles McCall and Senator Frank Simpson)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Creates the Higher Education Institution Local
Funding Act. The measure authorizes the board of regents of eligible two-year colleges to adopt a resolution calling for the creation of a higher education funding district, for the purpose of providing additional sources of funding for the institution. If
approved by the board of regents, the creation of the funding district and its initial operational millage rate would go to a vote of the people within the established district boundary. Additional bonds may be included in the ballot measure calling for the
creation of the district. The ballot measure would require 60 percent approval to pass.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Amended by Committee Substitute. Passed House Rules Committee as amended 7-0 on Thursday, February 25. Passed off the House Floor 79-18 on Tuesday, March 9. Engrossed to Senate. Dual
Assigned to Senate Education Committee and Senate Appropriations Committee.</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">House Bill 2691 (Representative Toni Hasenbeck and Senator Micheal Bergstrom)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Requires the Commission for Educational
Quality an Accountability to issue a report detailing factors in the public education system that contribute to graduation rates, assessment scores and the state workforce.
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed House Common Education Committee 14-0 on Tuesday, February 23. Passed off the House Floor 76-18 on Tuesday, March 9. Engrossed to Senate. Assigned to Senate Education Committee.</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">House Bill 2750 (Representative Rhonda Baker and Senator Adam Pugh)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> States the intent of the Legislature that
in establishing minimum required score on AP exams for granting course credit the Regents for Higher Education should not require an AP score above 3.
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed House Higher Education and CareerTech Committee 9-0 on Monday, February 22. Amended to allow the granting of additional credit for higher than 3. Passed off the House Floor
94-0 on Wednesday, March 3. Engrossed to Senate. Assigned to Senate Education Committee.
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">House Bill 2874 (Representative Kevin Wallace and Senator Roger Thompson)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Adds the University Hospitals Trust
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed House Appropriations and Budget Committee 26-1 on Wednesday, February 10. Title Stricken. Passed off the House Floor 83-9 on Monday, February 22. Engrossed to Senate. Assigned
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">House Bill 2926 (Speaker Charles McCall and Senator Adam Pugh)
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Requires each institution of higher education to publish a salary report of common occupations and industries in which students are employed upon graduation.
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed House Rules Committee 7-0 on Tuesday, February 9. Passed off the House Floor 97-1 on Tuesday, March 9. Engrossed to Senate. Assigned to Senate Education Committee.</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Senate Bill 70 (Senator Frank Simpson and Representative Tommy Hardin)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Increases the time period before the date
of enrollment from five years to 10 years when a person was discharged or released from active military service to qualify for in-state enrollment.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Education 4-0 on Wednesday, February 10. Referred to Full Appropriations Committee. Passed Senate Appropriations Committee 19-0 on Thursday,
February 18. Title Stricken. Passed off the Senate Floor 45-0 on Tuesday, March 9. Assigned to Senate Appropriations and Budget Committee.</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Senate Bill 139 (Senator Roger Thompson and Representative Kyle Hilbert)
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Adds the Senate Appropriations Committee Chair and the House Appropriations and Budget Committee Chair to the list of recipients of the annual report submitted by Oklahoma State University
Medical Authority.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Assigned to Senate Appropriations Committee. Laid Over. Passed Senate Appropriations Committee 20-0 on Wednesday February, 24. Passed off the Senate Floor 45-0 on Tuesday, March 2.
Engrossed to House. Assigned to House Appropriations and Budget Committee. Laid Over.</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Senate Bill 238 (Senator Dewayne Pemberton and Representative Kyle Hilbert</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">) Creates a task force to study the
requirement for high school students to complete the FASFA. Designates the makeup of this task force and the end date for a report. Requires the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education and the Senate to provide the staff and administrative support for
the task force.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed Senate Education Committee 11-1 Tuesday, February 9. Passed off the Senate Floor 40-5 on Wednesday, March 3. Engrossed to House. Assigned to House Higher Education and Career
Tech Committee. </span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Senate Bill 261 (Senator John Michael Montgomery and Representative Melissa Provenzano)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Creates the Oklahoma
Student Borrower’s Bill of Rights, requiring that student loan servicers not employ any deceptive practices, maintain accurate reporting to consumer credit bureaus, and otherwise accurately inform borrowers of their rights and obligations in public and plain
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed Senate Business, Commerce and Tourism Committee 11-2 on Thursday, February 11. Passed off the Senate Floor 45-0 on Tuesday, March 2. Engrossed to House. Assigned to House Higher
Education and Career Tech Committee.</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Senate Bill 292 (Senator John Haste and Representative Jadine Nollan)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Creates a task force to study the concurrent
enrollment needs of the State.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed Senate Education Committee 12-0 on Tuesday, February 23. Passed off the Senate Floor 46-1 on Wednesday, March 3. Engrossed to House. Assigned to House Higher Education and
Career Tech Committee.</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Allows the undergraduate and graduate programs of the same discipline of engineering at an institution to be part of the qualified program if either program is ABET accredited.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed Senate Finance Committee 11-0 on Tuesday, February 9. Passed off the Senate Floor 42-3 on Thursday, March 11. Engrossed to House. Assigned to Finance- Revenue and Taxation
Subcommittee then to Appropriations and Budget Committee.</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Senate Joint Resolution 15 (Senator Rob Standridge)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Puts to a vote of the people a prohibition for higher education
from requiring students to enroll in a course that is not a core requirement of their chosen curriculum, a course with no tuition or fee charged, or a course that is not directly relevant to a degree being pursued.
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Assigned to Senate Rules Committee.</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">House Bill 1006 (Representative Carol Bush and Senator Adam Pugh</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">) Creates the Transparency in Health Care Prices
Act. The bill defines applicable terms. It requires healthcare providers make available to the public, in a single document, either electronically or by posting conspicuously on the provider's website if one exists, the health care prices for at least the
20 most common health care services the healthcare provider provides.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed House Public Health Committee 8-0 on Wednesday, February 24. Passed off the House Floor 92-0 on Tuesday, March 2. Engrossed to Senate. Assigned to Senate Health and Human Services
Committee. </span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">House Bill 2299 (Representative Dustin Roberts and Senator John Michael Montgomery)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Creates the Oklahoma Medical
Education Protection Act which preserves the supplemental payment programs payable to University Health Science Centers when entering into contractual arrangements with any entity for the management of Medicaid patients.
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed House Rules Committee 8-0 on Tuesday, February 23. Passed off the House Floor 82-3 on Wednesday, March 10. Engrossed to Senate. Assigned to Senate Appropriations Committee.
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">House Joint Resolution 1041 (Representative Sean Roberts)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Puts to a vote of the people an amendment repealing
Medicaid expansion.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Senate Bill 4 (Senator Greg McCortney and Representative T.J. Marti)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Permits a pharmacist to substitute an interchangeable
biological product for a prescribed biological product only if the substituted product has been determined by FDA to be interchangeable with the prescribed biological product; the prescribing physician has permitted substitution; and the pharmacy informs the
patient of the substitution.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed Senate Health and Human Services committee 10-0 Wednesday, February 3. Amended by Floor Substitute. Passed off the Senate Floor 44-0 on Wednesday, March 10. Engrossed to House.
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Senate Bill 100 (Senator Brenda Stanley and Representative Dean Davis)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Permits an applicant for a license to
practice podiatric medicine to submit an electronic application online. It requires an applicant legally reside in the United States, rather than be loyal to the US. The bill removes the requirement that the applicant be free from contagious or infectious
disease.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed Senate Health and Human Services Committee 8-3 on Thursday, February 25. Passed off the Senate Floor 46-0 on Wednesday, March 10. Engrossed to House. Assigned to House Public
Health Committee.</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Senate Bill 107 (Senator John Michael Montgomery and Representative Todd Russ)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Gives the Office of Management
and Enterprise Services (OMES) the authority, beginning with the Jan. 1, 2022 plan year, to renew vision plan contracts with plan providers for succeeding one-year terms if the provider had a contract for the immediately preceding year.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed Senate Retirement and Insurance Committee 9-0 on Monday, February 8. Passed off Senate Floor 47-0 on Thursday, February 10. Engrossed to House. Assigned to House Banking, Financial
Services and Pensions Committee. </span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Senate Bill 164 (Senator Brenda Stanley and Representative Cynthia Roe)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Modifies language related to participation
in a research program or experimental procedures. It requires human subject research to be approved by an accredited institutional review board rather than a local institutional review board. It requires when the patient is incapable of giving informed consent
and is a minor that the consent be given by the parent or legal guardian. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed Senate Health and Human Services Committee 10-0 Wednesday, February 3. Passed off the Senate Floor 43-2 on Tuesday, March 2. Engrossed to House. Assigned to House Public Health
Committee. </span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Senate Bill 207 (Senator Jessica Garvin and Senator Marcus McEntire)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Authorizes the Oklahoma Health Care Authority
Administrator to designate an administrative law judge to perform appeal hearings for those adversely affected by a decision of the authority.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed Senate Health and Human Services Committee 11-0 on Monday, February 8. Passed Full Appropriations Committee 19-0 on Wednesday, March 3. Passed off the Senate Floor 42-0 on
Wednesday, March 10. Engrossed to House. Assigned to House Health Subcommittee then to Appropriations and Budget Committee.
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Senate Bill 319 (Senator Robert Standridge and Representative Daniel Pae)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Exempts from the prohibition furnishing
anyone under the age of 21 any cigarettes, cigarette papers, cigars, bidis, snuff, chewing tobacco, or any other form of tobacco product, or vapor products persons performing activities as part of a scientific study being conducted by a research institution
for the purpose of medical research to further efforts in cigarette and tobacco use prevention and cessation and tobacco product regulation, provided that such medical research has been approved by a properly accredited institutional review board pursuant
to applicable federal regulations.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed Senate Public Safety Committee 11-0 on Monday, February 8. Passed off the Senate Floor 46-0 on Thursday, February 11. Engrossed to House. Assigned to House Public Safety Committee.
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Senate Bill 406 (Senator Jessica Garvin and Representative Marcus McEntire)
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Modifies the definitions of "University Hospital" and "Oklahoma's Children's Hospital." It authorizes the University Hospital’s authority to assign any inpatient and outpatient hospital
and clinical facilities, research buildings, facilities or property and any other buildings, facilities or property under its ownership or management and control to University Hospital, Oklahoma Children's Hospital or any other division or entity which is
part of University Hospital.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed Senate Health and Human Services Committee 11-0 on Monday, February 8. Passed off the Senate Floor 45-1 on Thursday, March 4. Engrossed to House. Assigned to House Higher Education
and Career Tech Committee. </span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">House Bill 1124 (Representative Logan Phillips and Senator James Leewright)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Creates the State Broadband Deployment
Grant Program to direct competitive grants to applicants seeking to expand broadband internet services and directs the Corporation Commission to create the Rural Broadband Expansion Council to promulgate rules and procedures for the program.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed House Technology Committee 5-1 on Wednesday, February 24. Passed off the House Floor 91-6 on Tuesday, March 9. Engrossed to Senate. Passed Senate Business, Commerce and Tourism
Committee 11-1 on Thursday, March 25. Assigned to Senate Appropriations Committee.
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">House Bill 2040 (Speaker Charles McCalle and Senator James Leewright)
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The measure provides a sales tax exemption, in the form of rebates, on sales of qualifying broadband equipment if the property is directly used or consumed by the provider or subsidiary
in or during the distribution of internet services.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed House Appropriations and Budget Committee 30-0 on Wednesday, February 24. Passed off the House Floor 85-14 on Thursday, March 11, Engrossed to Senate. Assigned to Senate Finance
Committee. </span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">House Bill 2090 (Speaker Charles McCall and Senator James Leewright)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Expands the Rural Broadband Expansion Council
from 14 to 16 members. One of the additional members would represent a wireless internet service provider and be appointed by the Speaker of the House. The other additional member would represent a Native American tribe and be appointed by the Senate President
Pro Tem.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed House Technology Committee 6-0 on Wednesday, February 24. Emergency Added. Passed off the House Floor 97-0 on Tuesday, March 9. Engrossed to Senate. Assigned to Senate Business,
Commerce and Tourism Committee.</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">House Bill 2928 (Speaker Charles McCall and Senator James Leewright)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Directs broadband service providers in the
state to submit a report containing their network area coverage map to the Department of Commerce and the Rural Broadband Expansion Council by October 31, 2021. The providers would be required to update this map and report annually. OneNet is also directed
to provide mapping of all assets and network coverage. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed House Technology Committee 6-0 on Wednesday, February 24. Passed off the House Floor 97-0 on Tuesday, March 9. Engrossed to Senate. Assigned to Senate Business, Commerce and
Tourism Committee.</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Senate Bill 802 (Senator James Leewright and Representative Logan Phillips)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Increases the Rural Broadband Expansion
Council by one member to be filled by a tribal leader of this state. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed Senate Business, Commerce and Tourism Committee 12-1 on Thursday, February 18. Passed off the Senate Floor 44-2 on Tuesday, March 9. Engrossed to House. Assigned to House Technology
Committee. </span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">House Bill 1876 (Representative Tammy West and Senator Brenda Stanley)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Specifies what private employee information
is not subject to the Open Meeting Act.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed House General Government Committee 8-0 On Wednesday, February 10. Passed off the House Floor 82-0 on Thursday, February 18. Engrossed to Senate. Passed Senate Judiciary Committee
9-0 on Tuesday, March 23. </span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">House Bill 2644 (Representative Jon Echols and Senator Kim David)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Extends the provisions that allows for virtual
open meetings until March 31, 2024<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Assigned to House General Government Committee. Laid Over. Passed House General Government Committee 8-0 on Tuesday, February 24. Title Stricken. Passed off the House Floor 92-6 on
Tuesday, March 9. Engrossed to Senate. Assigned to Senate Judiciary Committee.</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Senate Bill 970 (Senator Kay Floyd and Representative Brad Boles)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Makes all license or certification public record,
excluding an applicant’s personal address, phone number or other personal material.
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed Senate Judiciary Committee 9-0 on Tuesday, February 9. Passed off the Senate Floor 46-0 on Monday, March 1. Engrossed to House. Passed House General Government Committee 8-0
on Wednesday, March 24. </span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Senate Bill 1031 (Senator Greg Treat and Representative Jon Echols)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Extends the provisions that allow for virtual
open meetings until the Governor declares the state of emergency to have ended. <o:p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Assigned to Senate General Government Committee. Withdrawn from General Government Committee. Direct to Calendar. Passed off the Senate Floor as amended by Floor Substitute with a
vote of 45-0 on Wednesday, February 3. Direct to House Calendar. Passed off the House Floor 88-5 on Monday, February 8. Signed by Governor Stitt on Wednesday, February 10.
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Senate Bill 1032 (Senator Greg Treat and Speaker Charles McCall)
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Requires livestreaming for virtual open meetings<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed Senate General Government Committee 7-0 on Thursday, February 18. Passed off the Senate Floor 47-0 on Wednesday, March 10. Engrossed to House. Assigned to House Rules Committee.
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<b><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Scholarships</span></u></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">House Bill 1739 (Representative Sheila Dills and Senator Brenda Stanley)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Creates the Connecting Futures Act.
It allows the Department of Human Services to, subject to available funding, create a pilot program to address needs of any minors who are separated from their parents or legal guardians, are not supported by their parents or legal guardians and are not in
the custody of the Department of Human Services or in the custody of any Indian tribe. It requires the pilot program to allow the Department to provide assistance in securing necessary services to allow eligible minors to become self-reliant and productive
citizens.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed House Children Youth and Family Services Committee 5-0 on Tuesday, February 9. Passed off the House Floor 82-6 on Monday, March 1. Engrossed to Senate.
<a name="x__Hlk66951420">Dual Assigned to Senate Health and Human Services Committee and Senate Appropriations Committee.</a></span></u><span style="mso-bookmark:x__Hlk66951420"></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">House Bill 1821 (Representative Toni Hasenbeck and Senator Dewayne Pemberton)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Increases flexibility in the use
of Tuition Aid Grants, by removing language directing the Regents for Higher Education to direct tuition aid grants to all eligible applicants, and adding factors to the way the awards are prioritized including: Enrollment status, unmet financial need, continuous
enrollment, nearness to degree completion or certificate, state employment needs, and eligibility for other State and institutional funds.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed House Higher Education and CareerTech Committee 9-0 on Monday, February 8. Passed off the House Floor 94-2 on Tuesday, March 2. Engrossed to Senate. Passed Senate Education
Committee 11-1 on Tuesday, March 23. </span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">House Bill 2399 (Representative Todd Russ and Senator Marty Quinn)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Extends the qualification for Oklahoma’s higher
learning access program to those students whose parents died after the students tenth grade year, and meet the other financial requirements.
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Assigned to House Higher Education and CareerTech Committee. Amended by unanimous consent passed to House Higher Education and CareerTech Committee 9-0 on Monday, February 8. Passed
off the House Floor 93-0 on Tuesday, March 2. Engrossed to Senate. Dual assigned to Senate Education Committee and Senate Appropriations Committee.</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Senate Bill 132 (Senator David Bullard and Representative Rhonda Baker)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Extends application window for Oklahoma’s
Promise to the eleventh grade.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed Senate Education Committee 12-0 on Tuesday, February 23. Title Stricken. Passed off the Senate Floor 42-0 on Tuesday, March 9. Title Restored. Engrossed to House. Assigned
to House Higher Education and Career Tech Committee. </span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Senate Bill 237 (Senator Dewayne Pemberton and Representative Mark McBride)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Increases flexibility in the use
of Tuition Aid Grants, by removing language directing the Regents for Higher Education to direct tuition aid grants to all eligible applicants, and adding factors to the way the awards are prioritized including: Enrollment status, unmet financial need, continuous
enrollment, nearness to degree completion or certificate, state employment needs, and eligibility for other State and institutional funds.
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed Senate Education Committee 12-0 Tuesday, February 9. Passed off the Senate Floor 44-1 on Wednesday, March 3. Engrossed to House. Assigned to House Education Subcommittee then
to Appropriations and Budget Committee. </span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Senate Bill 639 (Senator Adam Pugh and Representative Rhonda Baker)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Extends qualification for Oklahoma’s Promise
to those enrolled in an area that has been identified as a critical occupation area. Requires the Oklahoma Department of Commerce and the State Regents for Higher Education to publish a yearly list between October and June of the critical occupation areas
that meet the guidelines. Requires the Regents, in consultation with CareerTech, to identify postsecondary vo-tech programs that correlate to the critical occupation areas. Sets a 6-year completion timeline for a baccalaureate or other postsecondary education
credential and requires that the Oklahoma’s Promise scholarship recipient repay the scholarship if the credential is not earned within 6-year time frame.
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed Senate Education Committee 12-0 on Tuesday, February 9. Amended by Floor Substitute, which provides a 6-year time period to earn a baccalaureate or other postsecondary
education credential or requires that the Oklahoma’s Promise recipient enter into a repayment agreement with the institution of higher education or career technology center. Passed off the Senate Floor 36-9 on Thursday, March 11. Engrossed to House. Assigned
to House Higher Education and Career Tech Committee.<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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<b><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Teacher Retirement System</span></u></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">House Bill 2293 (Representative Dustin Roberts and Senator Lonnie Paxton)
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">modifies the matching of TRS funds to be based only on the member’s regular annual compensation regardless of the source of funds, except federal funding.
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed House Banking Financial Services and Pensions Committee 6-2 on Monday, February 22. Passed off the House Floor 51-38 on Thursday, March 11. Emergency Failed. Engrossed to Senate.
Assigned to Senate Retirement and Insurance Committee. </span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Senate Bill 267 (Senator Dewayne Pemberton and Representative Jadine Nollan)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Allows retired educators who have
received benefits for at least one year and who have not been employed by a public school during that time to be eligible to be reemployed as an active classroom teacher in common or career tech school district with no limitation on earnings.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed Senate Retirement and Insurance Committee 9-0 on Thursday, February 18. Passed off the House Floor 36-11 on Wednesday, March 3. Engrossed to House. Assigned to House Banking,
Financial Services and Pensions Committee.</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Senate Bill 683 (Senator Chris Kidd and Representative Mark McBride)
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Removes the one-year regular employment requirement for full-time non-classified optional personnel to join the TRS.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Assigned to Senate Retirement and Insurance Committee. Laid Over. Passed Senate Retirement and Insurance Committee 8-1 on Monday, February 22. Passed off the House Floor 41-2 on Thursday,
March 11. Engrossed to House. Assigned to House Banking, Financial Services and Pensions Committee.</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Senate Joint Resolution 18 (Senator Lonnie Paxton)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Puts to a vote of the people a constitutional amendment that
requires any COLA to include funding. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Assigned to Senate Rules Committee.</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Teacher Certification</span></u></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">House Bill 1593 (Representative Melissa Provenzano and Senator Brenda Stanley)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Requires 7th-12th grade teachers
to have workplace safety training emphasized into curriculum. The program shall be completed the first year a certified teacher is employed by a school district.
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed House Common Education Committee 13-0 Tuesday, February 16. Passed off House Floor 74-19 on Monday, March 1. Engrossed to Senate. Assigned to Senate Education Committee.
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">House Bill 1773 (Representative Sherrie Conley and Senator Jessica Garvin)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Requires teaching candidates in early
childhood elementary, secondary and special education to study the philosophy framework and implementation of a multi-tiered systems of support (MTSS) designed to address the core academic and nonacademic needs of all students.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Assigned to House Common Education Committee. Amended by committee substitute. Passed House Common Education Committee 8-1 on Monday, February 8</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">.
<u>Passed off the House Floor 91-0 on Tuesday, March 2. Engrossed to Senate. Assigned to Senate Education Committee.
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">House Bill 1796 (Representative Nicole Miller and Senator Adam Pugh)
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Allows the State Board of Education, in consultation with the Commission for Education Quality and Accountability to grant subject area examination exceptions for initial certification
in a field that does not require an advanced degree if the candidate already has an advanced degree in the subject essentially comparable to the content assessed in the examination.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Update: Passed House Common Education Committee 13-0 on Tuesday, February 9. Passed off the House Floor 91-1 on Monday, March 1. Engrossed to Senator. Assigned to Senate Education Committee.
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">House Bill 2329 (Representative Mark Lawson and Senator Frank Simpson)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Allows the State Board of Education to
grant an exception to the certification examination to teacher candidates who are deaf.
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed House Rules Committee 8-0 on Thursday, February 25. Passed off the House Floor 97-0 on Tuesday, March 9. Engrossed to Senate.</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
<u>Dual assigned to Senate Education Committee and Senate Appropriations Committee.</u><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">House Bill 2693 (Representative Toni Hasenbeck and Senator Brenda Stanley)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Updates the name of the Oklahoma Commission
for Teacher Preparation to the Office of Educational Quality and Accountability. Rewards teachers who are renewing their National Board Certification by awarding them a portion of the renewal application fee.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Assigned to House Rules Committee. Reassigned to House Appropriations Committee. Passed House Appropriations Committee 28-0 on Thursday, February 18. Passed off the House Floor 81-11
on Wednesday, March 10. Engrossed to Senate. Dual assigned to Senate Education Committee and Senate Appropriations Committee.
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">House Bill 2748 (Representative Rhonda Baker and Senator Brenda Stanley)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Requires the State Board of Education
to issue one-year alternative teacher certificates renewable for up to 3 years to teach early childhood education or elementary education if the alternative certified teacher meets certain qualifications.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed House Common Education Committee 14-0 on Tuesday, February 9. Passed off the House floor 86-0 on Thursday, February 18. Engrossed to Senate. Assigned to Senate Education Committee.
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">House Bill 2752 (Representative Rhonda Baker and Senator Brenda Stanley)
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Requires the State Department of Education in coordination with the Commission for Educational Quality and Accountability to establish a micro-credential programs for teachers who
hold a certificate to complete additional coursework and earn STEM credentials.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed House Common Education Committee 14-0 on Tuesday, February 23. Passed off the House Floor 93-0 on Tuesday, March 9. Engrossed to Senate. Assigned to Senate Education Committee.
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Senate Bill 51 (Senator Carri Hicks and Representative Danny Sterling)
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Removes the requirement to pass the general education portions of the competency examination for an alternative placement teaching certificate or a teacher certificate.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed Senate Education Committee 11-0 on Tuesday, February 23. Passed off Senate Floor 33-12 on Monday, March 1. Engrossed to House. Assigned to Senate Common Education Committee.
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Senate Bill 67 (Senator Frank Simpson and Speaker Charles McCall)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Permits the State Board of Education to grant
an exception to the requirements for all certification examinations for teacher candidates who are "deaf."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Assigned to Senate Education Committee. Passed Senate Education Committee 12-0 on Tuesday, February 2. Passed off the Senate Floor 46-0 on Thursday, March 4. Engrossed to House. Assigned
to House Rules Committee. </span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Senate Bill 229 (Senator John Michael Montgomery and Representative Kyle Hilbert)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Allows the State Board of Education
to renew an Emergency or Provisional Teacher Certification for up to five years.
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed Senate Education Committee 10-2 on Tuesday, February 23. Title Stricken. Passed off the Senate Floor 37-8 on Thursday, March 11. Engrossed to House. Assigned to House Common
Education Committee. </span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Weapons on Campus / Gun Laws</span></u></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">House Bill 1629 (Representative David Hardin and Senator Micheal Bergstrom)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Preempts any federal, state county
or municipal law rule or regulation that orders the confiscation of firearms, firearm accessories of ammunition.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed House Judiciary-Criminal Committee 7-2 on Wednesday, February 10. Passed off the House Floor 77-19 Tuesday, March 9. Emergency added. Engrossed to Senate. Assigned to Senate
Public Safety Committee. </span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">House Bill 1630 (Representative David Hardin and Senator Dewayne Pemberton)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Modifies the Unlawful Intent to Carry
and Penalty Portions of Firearms Act to allow flexibility in punishment upon conviction. Deletes the ability to permanently revoke a handgun license. Amends background checks to remove criminal history records fingerprints and FBI searches on license renewal.
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed House Judiciary-Criminal Committee 8-1 on Wednesday, February 10. Passed off the House floor 78-18 on Monday, February 22. Engrossed to Senate. Assigned to Senate Public Safety
Committee. </span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">House Bill 1662 (Representative Kevin West and Senator Nathan Dahm)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> If a defendant claims self-defense the State
of Oklahoma must then have to prove beyond reasonable doubt that the defensive force was not justified.
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed House Judiciary-Criminal Committee 7-2 on Wednesday, February 24. Passed off the House Floor 77-19 on Thursday, March 11. Engrossed to Senate. Assigned to Senate Judiciary
Committee. </span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">House Bill 2334 (Representative Jay Steagall and Senator Micheal Bergstrom)
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Authorizes the possession of firearms on streets, plazas, sidewalks and alleys. Authorizes open carry on property of nonprofit entities and public trusts.
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed House Public Safety Committee 5-2 on Tuesday, February 23. Passed off the House Floor 79-18 on Tuesday, March 9. Engrossed to Senate. Assigned to Senate Public Safety Committee.</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">House Bill 2401 (Representative Todd Russ and Senator David Bullard</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">) Changes the ban on all felons from carrying
firearms to a ban on anyone convicted of a specifically classified violent felony from carrying firearms for a period of 5 years.
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed House Judiciary-Criminal Committee 7-2 on Wednesday, February 24. Passed off the House Floor 77-19 on Wednesday, March 10. Engrossed to Senate. Assigned to Senate Public Safety
Committee.</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">House Bill 2588 (Representative Sean Roberts and Senator David Bullard)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Allows a board of education of a school
district to adopt a policy to authorize the carrying of a handgun onto school property by school personnel if the person possesses a valid handgun license and meets other requirements authorized by the board of education.
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Assigned to House Criminal Justice and Corrections Committee. Amended by Committee Substitute. Passed House Criminal Justice and Corrections Committee 3-1 on Thursday, February 25.
Passed off the House Floor 79-18, Emergency Passed 68-18 on Tuesday, March 9. Engrossed to Senate. Assigned to Senate Public Safety Committee.</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">House Bill 2645 (Representative Jon Echols and Senator David Bullard)
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Allows the carrying of firearms in bars and restaurants as long as the carrier is not consuming alcoholic beverages. Reduces fines and punishments from $1,000 and two years in prison
to $250. Removes the revocation of a handgun license upon violation of this statute.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Assigned to House Public Safety Committee. Reassigned to House Criminal Justice and Corrections Committee. Passed House Criminal Justice and Corrections Committee 3-1 on Thursday,
February 25. Passed off the House Floor 78-19 on Tuesday, March 9. Engrossed to Senate.
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Senate Bill 106 (Senator Mark Allen and Representative Terry O’Donnell</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">) Defines the term "completed application"
within the Oklahoma Self-Defense Act to mean all fields are completed, questions answered and contains all required signatures on the Application for Self-Defense Act License and all required documents including legible fingerprints, if applicable. It removes
the 90-day grace period for handgun license renewals.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed Senate Public Safety Committee 9-2 on Friday, February 19. Passed off the Senate Floor 35-8 on Tuesday, March 2. Engrossed to House. Assigned to House Rules Committee.
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Senate Bill 631 (Senator Warren Hamilton and Representative Sean Roberts)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Makes Oklahoma a “Second Amendment
Sanctuary State” pre-empting any legislation or rule at any level that would infringe upon the right to bear arms.
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed Senate Public Safety Committee 9-2 on Monday, February 22. Passed off the Senate Floor 38-8 on Tuesday, March 9. Engrossed to House. Assigned to House Public Safety Committee.
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Senate Bill 644 (Senator Blake Stephens and Representative Sean Roberts)
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Allows municipalities to, by ordinance, authorize all or certain municipal employees to carry concealed firearms.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed Senate Public Safety Committee 10-1 on Friday, February 19. Passed off the Senate Floor 39-8 on Tuesday, March 9. Engrossed to House. Assigned to House County and Municipal
Government Committee. </span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Senate Bill 646 (Senator Micheal Bergstrom and Representative Jay Steagall)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Allows the carrying of firearms in
bars and restaurants as long as the carrier is not consuming alcoholic beverages. Reduces fines and punishments from $1,000 and two years in prison to $250. Removes the revocation of a handgun license upon violation of this statute.
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed Senate Public Safety Committee 9-2 on Monday, February 22. Title Stricken. Passed off the Senate Floor 37-9 on Tuesday, March 9. Engrossed to House. Assigned to House Public
Safety Committee. </span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Senate Bill 672 (Senator Casey Murdock and Representative Kenton Patzkowsky)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Allows unmitigated transport of
firearms for any person not otherwise prohibited from purchasing or carrying firearms.
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed Senate Public Safety Committee 9-2 on Friday, February 19. Passed off the Senate Floor 39-7 on Tuesday, March 9. Engrossed to House. Assigned to House Public Safety Committee.
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Senate Bill 730 (Senator Nathan Dahm and Representative Jay Steagall)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Bans any person, property owner, tenant,
employer, or business entity from establishing or enforcing any rule that prohibits transporting carrying or storing firearms.
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed Senate Public Safety Committee 9-2 on Monday, February 22. Passed off the Senate Floor 36-8 on Tuesday, March 9. Engrossed to House. Assigned to House Judiciary – Criminal
Committee. </span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Senate Bill 732 (Senator Nathan Dahm and Representative Jim Olsen)
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Allows anyone whose Second Amendment rights are violated to bring a lawsuit against any order or regulation or other political subdivision of the state. Defines responsibilities of
the court in such a case.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Assigned to Senate Public Safety Committee. Laid Over. Passed Senate Public Safety Committee 9-2 on Monday February, 22. Passed off the Senate Floor 38-8 on Tuesday, March 9. Engrossed
to House. Assigned to House Public Safety Committee. </span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Senate Bill 925 (Senator Nathan Dahm and Representative Jay Steagall)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Modifies language related to self-defense
with a firearm. It adds "occupied premises" to the list of places the Legislature recognizes that the citizens of the State of Oklahoma have a right to expect absolute safety and that a person legally is allowed to defend.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed Senate Public Safety Committee 9-2 on Friday, February 19. Passed off the Senate Floor 36-8 on Tuesday, March 9. Engrossed to House. Assigned to House Judiciary – Criminal
Committee. </span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Senate Bill 926 (Senator Nathan Dahm and Representative Eric Roberts)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Extends the firearms law preemption to
air powered pistols<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed Senate Public Safety Committee 9-0 on Monday, February 22. Passed off the Senate Floor 45-0 on Tuesday, March 9. Engrossed to House. Passed House Judiciary – Criminal Committee
6-2 on Wednesday, March 24. </span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Senate Joint Resolution 21 (Senator David Bullard)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Puts to a vote of the people a constitutional amendment prohibiting
any future legislation, taxation or rules that would infringe upon Second Amendment rights.
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Assigned to Senate Rules Committee.</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Workforce Development
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">House Bill 2860 (Representative Kevin Wallace and Senator Roger Thompson)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Creates the Oklahoma Remote Quality
Jobs Inventive Act. Provides for the Department of Commerce and the Oklahoma Tax Commission to create policy’s attracting growth industries that employ remote workers.
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed House Appropriations and Budget Committee 29-0 on Wednesday, February 24. Passed off the House floor 96-0 on Wednesday, March 3. Engrossed to Senate. Assigned to Senate Appropriations
Committee. </span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">House Bill 2929 (Speaker Charles McCall and Senator Greg Treat)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Requires the Department of Commerce to post on
its website information related to its business recruiting efforts with an emphasis on possible business site locations or relocation decisions within the state.
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed House Rules Committee 9-2 on Wednesday, February 24. Passed off the House Floor 68-22 on Wednesday, March 10. Engrossed to the Senate. Assigned to Senate Business, Commerce
and Tourism Committee. </span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Senate Bill 71 (Senator Micheal Bergstrom and Representative Kevin McDugle)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Modifies language related to the
Department of Commerce's requirement to promulgate rules for the administration of the Oklahoma Local Development and Enterprise Zone Incentive Leverage Act. It requires the rules establish reporting requirements for successful applicants which allow data
collection and analysis by the department on employment, capital investment, changes in assessed value of a project and other impacts resulting from payments and reporting of data by the department to the Oklahoma Tax Commission.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed Senate Finance Committee 10-0 on Tuesday, February 9. Passed off the Senate Floor 45-0 on Tuesday, March 2. Engrossed to House. Assigned to House Business and Commerce Committee.
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Senate Bill 211 (Senator Tom Dugger and Representative Ken Luttrell)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Modifies the powers and duties of the Oklahoma
Board of Private Vocational Schools. It permits a school to be accredited by an accrediting organization approved by the U.S. Department of Education for multiple years, and to obtain a sustained license annually during the period of the multi-year accreditation.
It modifies the fees the board may assess.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Assigned to Senate Education Committee. Title Stricken. Passed Senate Education Committee 10-2 on Tuesday, February 2. Passed Senate Appropriations Committee 20-0 on Wednesday, February
24. Passed off the Senate floor 42-5 on Wednesday. March, 3. Engrossed to House. Assigned to House Common Education Committee.
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Senate Bill 587 (Senator Chuck Hall and Representative Brad Boles)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Adds the delivery of industry focused instruction
from Common Education, CareerTech or Higher Education to the definitions in the Oklahoma Community Economic Development Pooled Finance Act.
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed Senate Finance Committee 12-0 on Tuesday, February 23. Passed off the Senate Floor 42-0 on Wednesday, March 10. Engrossed to House.</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Senate Bill 936 (Senator Chuck Hall and Representative Kevin Wallace)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Combines the various quality jobs programs
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Update: Passed Senate Business, Commerce and Tourism Committee 11-1 on Thursday, February 11. Passed Senate Appropriations and Budget 20-0 on Thursday, February 18. Passed off the Senate
Floor 43-2 on Tuesday, March 9. Engrossed to House. Assigned to House Appropriations and Budget Committee.
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