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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">The bills shown in red text below did not pass the committee process by the deadline last Thursday and are considered dead for the session.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">One of the bills that died was SB 211 related to tuition waivers for certain disabled veterans. While the bill passed the Senate Education Committee, it was
also dually assigned to the Senate Appropriations Committee and was not heard in the Appropriations Committee.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:red">Senate Bill 211 (Senator Joe Newhouse)</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:red"> Prohibits resident tuition from
being charged by institutions with the Oklahoma State System of Higher Education and the State Board of Career and Technology Education to state residents presenting proper certification from the United States Veterans Administration or the Armed Forces of
the United States that the veteran has a service-connected disability rating of 50 percent or more. It limits the resident tuition waiver to a period of five years.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:red">Update</span></u></b><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:red">: Passed Senate Education Committee 13-2 on Tuesday, February
12. Referred to Senate Appropriations Committee. Dormant.</span></u><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Four Oklahoma’s Promise bills remain alive.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Oklahoma’s Promise</span></u></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Senate Bill 80 (Senator Roger Thompson)
</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Expands Oklahoma’s Promise eligibility to students who have completed schooling other than at a private or public school (home school students) and performed at a proficient
level on statewide student assessments.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Update</span></u></b><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">: Passed Senate Education Committee 14-0 on Tuesday,
February 19. Passed Senate Appropriations Committee 20-0 on Thursday, February 28.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Senate Bill 581 (Senator Joseph Silk)
</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Provides Oklahoma Higher Learning Access Program eligibility for students adopted while in the custody of an out-of-state public child welfare agency and who is a resident
of Oklahoma at the time eligibility is determined.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Update:</span></u></b><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> Passed Senate Education Committee 15-0 on Tuesday,
February 12. Assigned to Senate Appropriations Committee.<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">House Bill 2018 (Representative Monroe Nichols)</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> expands eligibility
for participation in OKPromise for a student whose parent is employed as a certified classroom.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Update:</span></u></b><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> Passed House Higher Education and Career Tech
Committee on Tuesday, February 26.<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">House Bill 2227 (Representative Todd Russ)
</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Provides eligibility for a child of a teacher for the Oklahoma Higher Learning Access Program if the adjusted gross income of the student's parents does not exceed $150,000
per year. [Note – this bill was amended in committee and no longer relates to children of teachers. The bill is now about potential eligibility of 11<sup>th</sup> and 12<sup>th</sup> grade students whose parents die during the student’s 11<sup>th</sup> or
12<sup>th</sup> grade year.]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Update</span></u></b><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">: Assigned to House Rules Committee. Passed House
Rules Committee 7-0 on Thursday, February 28.</span></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Bryce Fair<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">OKLAHOMA STATE REGENTS FOR HIGHER EDUCATION<o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:36.0pt;letter-spacing:-3.0pt">Memo</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><b>To: <a name="to1">
</a>Legislative Network<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><b>From: </b> <a name="from">
</a>Chancellor Glen D. Johnson<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><b>Date: </b> <a name="datea">
</a>Friday, March 01, 2019<o:p></o:p></p>
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<b>Subject:</b> <a name="re"></a>Legislative Update – March 1, 2019<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="BodyA"><a name="body"></a><span lang="DE">The update below reflects the current status of major legislation concerning Higher Education during the week of February 25, 2019 through March 1, 2019.
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<p class="BodyA"><span lang="DE">Shell bills and bills marked “dormant“ will be removed from future bill lists. These bills can be brought up next session or in Joint Committee on Appropriations and Budget (JCAB) meetings through special circumstances but are
currently considered inactive. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">If you have any questions, please contact LeeAnna McNally at
<a href="mailto:lmcnally@osrhe.edu">lmcnally@osrhe.edu</a> or (405) 225-9424.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Legislative Report <o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>March 1, 2019<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Agency Administration</span></u></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 1 (Senator Greg Treat) </b>Creates the Legislative Office of Fiscal Transparency (LOFT), a 12-member committee to conduct performance evaluations of executive branch agencies, or programs, activities or functions within executive
branch agencies identified by the committee. The bill requires each agency or institution, upon request, to furnish and make available to the Legislative Office of Fiscal Transparency all records, documents, materials, personnel, information or other resources
deemed necessary.<br>
<b><u>Update:</u></b><u> Passed Senate Appropriations Committee 19-0 on Wednesday, February 27.</u><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Senate Bill 90 (Senator Adam Pugh)
</span></b><span style="color:red">Extends the sunset date for the State Accrediting Agency to July 1, 2024.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"> <b><u>Update:</u></b><u> Assigned to Senate General Government Committee. Dormant.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Senate Bill 93 (Senator Adam Pugh)
</span></b><span style="color:red">Requires state agency itemized budget requests, beginning with FY2020 and every four years thereafter, to justify every dollar requested, including the base appropriation amount, as well as any additional funds requested for
the ensuing fiscal year.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"> <b><u>Update:</u></b><u> Assigned to Senate Appropriations Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 117 (Senator Gary Stanislawski) </b>Appropriates $4 million to the Oklahoma Employment Security Administration Fund out of funds made available to this state by the federal Unemployment Compensation Modernization Transfer
in the following amounts: the Employment Service program, $2 million and the Unemployment Insurance program, $2 million.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><u>Update: </u></b><u>Passed Senate Appropriations Committee 21-0 on Wednesday, February 13. Passed off Senate Floor 44-1 om Monday, February 25.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Senate Bill 121 (Senator Julia Kirt)
</span></b><span style="color:red">Creates a state shared leave program.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><u><span style="color:red">Update:
</span></u></b><u><span style="color:red">Assigned to Senate General Government Committee then to Senate Appropriations Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 122 (Senator Gary Stanislawski) </b>Removes the requirement that all requests for additional office space for a state agency shall be submitted and reviewed by the State Governmental Technology Applications Review Board.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><b><u>Update: </u></b><u>Passed Senate General Government Committee 12-0 on Thursday, February 14.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Senate Bill 124 (Senator Larry Boggs)</span></b><span style="color:red"> Requires annual audit of all state agency revolving funds.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"> <b><u>Update: </u></b><u>Assigned to Senate Appropriations Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Senate Bill 127 (Senator Micheal Bergstrom)
</span></b><span style="color:red">Requires state agencies appropriated more than $75 million to present measures to allocate funds appropriately.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to Senate Appropriations<b> </b>Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Senate Bill 128 (Senator Bill Coleman)</span></b><span style="color:red"> Authorizes state agencies to pay employees for the periods of time when the employee is off work premises but required to remain at, near
or able to return to work when called upon.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><u><span style="color:red">Update:
</span></u></b><u><span style="color:red">Passed Senate General Government Committee 9-0 on Thursday, February, 21. Dormant.
<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 161 (Senator Rob Standridge)</b> Creates the Right Side Up Government Act of 2019. Moves 70% of legislative liaison salaries and 100% of the cost of registered executive or legislative lobbyists that are under contract with
or otherwise compensated by any appropriated state agency to the Legislative Office of Fiscal Transparency (LOFT) created by
<b>SB 1. </b>The bill requires that the process of moving employees not result in any net gain in full-time equivalent employees.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update: </u></b><u>Passed Senate Rules Committee 10-2 on Thursday, February 21.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 177 (Senator Ron Sharp) </b>Requires all state agencies to make available on their website, or on a general website if a state agency uses a general website, each fiscal year, a balance sheet and statement of revenues, expenditures
and changes in fund balances.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update: </u></b><u>Passed Senate General Government Committee 10-0 on Thursday, February 21.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 179 (Senator Gary Stanislawski)</b> Requires that the Division of Central Accounting and Reporting establish a mandatory training program for certain state employees as financial managers, including any employees who oversee
purchasing, finance and other vital fiscal functions of state agencies.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Passed Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on General Government and Transportation on Wednesday, February 6. Passed Senate Appropriations Committee 20-1 on Wednesday, February 13.
<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Senate Bill 191 (Senator Rob Standridge)
</span></b><span style="color:red">Creates the Oklahoma Workforce and Economic Development Act. The bill creates the Oklahoma Office of Workforce Development as a division of the Department of Labor, beginning July 1, 2020, and continuing until July 1, 2026,
to administer federal grant funding allocations from the federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act and other federal grants and sources of funding relating to state workforce development programs.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><u><span style="color:red">Update</span></u></b><u><span style="color:red">: Assigned to Senate Business, Commerce and Tourism Committee then to Senate Appropriations Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 198 (Senator Rob Standridge) </b>Requires all state agencies and all political subdivisions to adopt a social networking and social media policy that applies to the personal use of social media by state employees and employees
of any political subdivision to discourage abusive or offensive online behavior.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update: </u></b><u>Passed Senate General Government Committee 8-2 on Thursday, February 14.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Senate Bill 209 (Senator Stephanie Bice)</span></b><span style="color:red"> Requires that the Division of Central Accounting and Reporting establish a mandatory training program for state financial managers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"> <b><u>Update: </u></b><u>Assigned to Senate Appropriations Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 210 (Senator Roger Thompson and Senator Wayne Shaw)
</b>Creates the<b> </b>Pay for Success Act, which allows pay-for-success for agency contracts.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b> <u>Update: </u></b><u>Laid over in Senate Appropriations Committee on Wednesday, February 13.
</u> <u>Passed Senate Appropriations Committee 21-0 on Wednesday, February 20.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Senate Bill 214 (Senator Larry Boggs)</span></b><span style="color:red"> Requires the positions of the Executive Director of the Office of Juvenile Affairs, Commissioner of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services,
Director of Corrections, Administrator of the Oklahoma Health Care Authority, Director of the Department of Transportation, and the Director of the Oklahoma Department of Career and Technology Education be gubernatorial appointments, contingent upon Senate
approval.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"> <b><u>Update: </u></b><u>Assigned to Senate Rules Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 227 (Senator Roger Thompson) </b>Creates the Oklahoma Information Services Department Act. The bill creates the Oklahoma Information Services Department, into which the Office of Management and Enterprise Services Information
Services Division will be consolidated. Higher Education is exempt.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b> <u>Update: </u></b><u>Passed<b> </b>Senate Appropriations Committee 21-0 on Wednesday, February 27.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 240 (Senator Rob Standridge) </b>Requires the State Travel Office to give preference to travel agencies located within Oklahoma.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update: </u></b><u>Passed Senate General Government Committee 10-2 on Thursday, February 14.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 247 (Senator Ron Sharp) </b>Requires that no increase in salary for state agency heads will commence until such increase has been approved according to requirements established by the bill. It requires the board or commission
overseeing an agency to submit proposed salary increases for state agency heads to the subcommittee of the Senate Appropriations Committee and the House Appropriations and Budget Committee under whose jurisdiction the state agency resides.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update: </u></b><u>Assigned to Senate Appropriations Committee. Dormant<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Senate Bill 254 (Senator Julia Kirt)</span></b><span style="color:red"> Modifies the minimum salary requirement for state employees. It changes the minimum salary requirement to the Federal Poverty Guidelines
for a four-person household from a three-person household.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to Senate Appropriations Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 263 (Senator Nathan Dahm) </b>Requires state agencies to publish their exempt rules on their website. The bill modifies the deadline for agencies to respond to requests from the governor, the Legislature and small businesses
to review certain rules. It reduces the deadline to 30 days for requests from the governor and the Legislature and implements a 90-day deadline for small business requests.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update: </u></b><u>Assigned to Senate Rules Committee. Dormant<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Senate Bill 270 (Senator Julie Daniels)
</span></b><span style="color:red">Permits the governor to remove any gubernatorially appointed officer or appointments on any agency, board or commission. It exempts appointments to any agency, board or commission if the appointing authority is provided for
in the Constitution. It requires vacancies created by the removal of an appointee to be filled as provided by law.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"> <b><u>Update: </u></b><u>Assigned to Senate Rules Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 271 (Senator Nathan Dahm) </b>Requires all agencies to make an annual disclosure in a separate written report and information on websites maintained by or on behalf of the entities of all federal funds under the control of
the entity and the programs for which the federal funds are used by distinct expenditure categories.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update: </u></b><u>Passed Senate Appropriations Committee 21-0 on Wednesday, February 27.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 277 (Senator Roger Thompson)</b> Creates the “Oklahoma Information Services Department Act” consolidating the information services division of OMES into its own department.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update: </u></b><u>Passed Senate Judiciary Committee 12-0 on Tuesday, February 26.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 306 (Senator Adam Pugh)</b> Requires state agencies to provide advance notice to the State Treasurer of all disbursements that could negatively impact state cash flow requirements. It requires daily total submissions for
disbursement equal to or in excess of $25 million to be deemed to have the potential to negatively impact state cash flow.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update: </u></b><u>Passed Senate Finance Committee 9-0 on Tuesday, February 12.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Senate Bill 315 (Senator Nathan Dahm)
</span></b><span style="color:red">Requires the Chief Information Officer to maintain a website for all open meeting agendas for state agencies.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><u><span style="color:red">Update:
</span></u></b><u><span style="color:red">Passed Senate General Government Committee 9-0 with title stricken on Thursday, February 21. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 316 (Senator Nathan Dahm)</b> Creates the Government Transparency Act. It requires a state agency entering into a Memorandum of Understanding or Memorandum of Agreement with any agency, department or any organization receiving
appropriated money, grants, or contracts from the State of Oklahoma or any other state or funds from the government of the United States to publish a report on its website and the website, documents.ok.gov.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><u>Update: </u></b><u>Passed Senate General Government Committee 12-0 on Thursday, February 14. Passed off of the Senate Floor 42-4 on Monday, February 25.
<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 326 (Senator Nathan Dahm)</b> During each regular session of the Legislature, any member may request, by proper passage of a resolution introduced by either the Senate or the House of Representatives, a statement of legal
authority for a specific facet of operations of the agency.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><u>Update: </u></b><u>Passed Senate Rules Committee as amended to change time limit from 10 days to 15 days 9-2 on Wednesday, February 27.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Senate Bill 329 (Senator Nathan Dahm)
</span></b><span style="color:red">Upon receipt by a state agency of a requirement for an agency to adopt, that agency shall send the federal rule or regulation by electronic mail to the President Pro Tempore of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives,
and the Governor.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"> <b><u>Update: </u></b><u>Assigned to Senate Rules Committee. Dormant.</u><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Senate Bill 342 (Senator Nathan Dahm)</span></b><span style="color:red"> No state agency shall use any state funding available, including but not limited to state appropriations, to employ a number of full-time-equivalent
employees in excess of the number of full-time-equivalent state-funded employees actually employed by such agency on January 1, 2019.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red"> <u>Update: </u></span></b><u><span style="color:red">Assigned to Senate Appropriations Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Senate Bill 343 (Senator Casey Murdock)</span></b><span style="color:red"> Gives the Governor appointing power over the agency head of the Department of Environmental Quality, Alcoholic Beverage Laws Enforcement
Commission, the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services, the Pardon and Parole Board, the Department of Corrections, the State Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Control, the Oklahoma Health Care Authority, the Department of Transportation,
the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, and the Oklahoma Water Resources Board. The act states the Governor must make these appointments with the advice and consent of the Senate.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red"> <u>Update: </u></span></b><u><span style="color:red">Assigned to Senate Rules Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Senate Bill 350 (Senator Nathan Dahm)
</span></b><span style="color:red">Creates the Red Tape Repealer Act requiring rule replacement requests for any proposed new agency rules.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red"> <u>Update: </u></span></b><u><span style="color:red">Assigned to Senate Rules Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Senate Bill 356 (Senator Nathan Dahm)
</span></b><span style="color:red">Prohibits the use or authorization of the use of public funds, property or time to engage in legislative or executive lobbying, as defined by the rules of the Ethics Commission, except as provided in the Whistleblower Act
or in connection with individual rights set forth in the U.S. and Oklahoma Constitutions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red"> <u>Update: </u></span></b><u><span style="color:red">Assigned to Senate Rules Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Senate Bill 366 (Senator Gary Stanislawski</span></b><span style="color:red">) Makes the Oklahoma Health Care Authority (OHCA) Administrator a gubernatorial appointee, subject to Senate confirmation<b>.</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red"> <u>Update: </u></span></b><u><span style="color:red">Assigned to Senate Rules Committee. Dormant.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Senate Bill 367 (Senator Nathan Dahm)
</span></b><span style="color:red">Requires all rules promulgated by every agency, board and commission to sunset once every four years. It requires the House and Senate to form a joint review committee during the year preceding the sunset of each agency, board
or commission's rules.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red"> <u>Update: </u></span></b><u><span style="color:red">Assigned to Senate Rules Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Senate Bill 368 (Senator Nathan Dahm)</span></b><span style="color:red"> Changes the date by which agencies, boards and commissions must file administrative rules with the Legislature to February 1 from April
1.<b> <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red"> <u>Update: </u></span></b><u><span style="color:red">Assigned to Senate Rules Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Senate Bill 478 (Senator J.J. Dossett)
</span></b><span style="color:red">Creates the Paid Family Leave Act. It requires the Department of Labor to establish a family temporary disability insurance program. It requires the insurance provide up to six weeks of wage replacement benefits to workers
who take time off work to care for a seriously ill child, spouse, parent, grandparent, grandchild, sibling or domestic partner or to bond with a minor child within one year of the birth or placement of the child in connection with foster care or adoption.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><u><span style="color:red">Update:
</span></u></b><u><span style="color:red">Assigned to Senate Business, Commerce and Tourism Committee then to Senate Appropriations Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Senate Bill 531 (Senator Ron Sharp)
</span></b><span style="color:red">Increases the state's contribution to the Oklahoma State Employees Deferred Savings Incentive Plan to $50 from $25 per month for qualifying employees beginning Jan. 1, 2021.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"> <b><u>Update:</u></b><u> Assigned to Senate Appropriations Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Senate Bill 577 (Senator Darrell Weaver )
</span></b><span style="color:red"> Creates additional longevity pay schedule for employees who do not receive at least a "meet standards" rating on their most current performance rating.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"> <b><u>Update:</u></b><u> Assigned to Senate Appropriations Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 583 (Senator Gary Stanislawski)</b> Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Enterprise Services to initiate a request for proposal for the ongoing maintenance of desktop support and management systems for all
state agencies by July 1, 2020. It authorizes the Office of Management and Enterprise Services to enter into a contract for such services, pursuant to the provisions of law. It requires notice of the request for proposal to be published in the manner provided
for competitive bidding.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Passed Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on General Government and Transportation on Wednesday, February 6. Referred to full Senate Appropriations Committee. Title Stricken. Passed Senate
Appropriations Committee 19-0 on Wednesday, February 20. <o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Senate Bill 587 (Senator Nathan Dahm)
</span></b><span style="color:red">Limits the purposes for which state agencies are required to make payroll deductions. It deletes a payroll deduction for Oklahoma Today magazine. It prohibits school districts from making payroll deductions for political contributions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"> <b><u>Update:</u></b><u> Assigned to Senate Finance Committee. Dormant.<b><o:p></o:p></b></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Senate Bill 592 (Senator Mark Allen)</span></b><span style="color:red"> Requires any organization or group of 100 or more persons that engages in an organized protest at the State Capitol building to post a bond
of $50,000 with the Oklahoma Capitol Improvement Authority in order to offset the cost of additional security, clean up and repairs.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"> <b><u>Update:</u></b><u> Assigned to Senate Rules Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Senate Bill 631 (Senator Mark Allen)</span></b><span style="color:red"> Requires all events or exhibits properly scheduled and approved for individuals or groups in locations designated in the Oklahoma State Capitol
or any of its public spaces or plazas eligible for events or exhibits to be honored in the location and on the specific date and time so approved. It requires the Office of Management and Enterprise Services (OMES) to provide any personnel or items required
for controlling the location for the specified time and location reservation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><b><u><span style="color:red">Update</span></u></b><u><span style="color:red">: Assigned to Senate Rules Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Senate Bill 655 (Senator Roger Thompson)</span></b><span style="color:red"> Modifies requirements for a statewide assistance telework program. It deletes a section requiring requests for additional office space
for a state agency to be submitted and reviewed by the State Governmental Technology Applications Review Board.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><b><u><span style="color:red">Update</span></u></b><u><span style="color:red">: Assigned to Senate General Government Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Senate Bill 684 (Senator Gary Stanislawski)</span></b><span style="color:red"> Requires the Division of Central Accounting and Reporting to establish a mandatory training program to identify and certify certain
Oklahoma state agency employees as financial managers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to Senate Finance Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 740 (Senator Adam Pugh) </b>Modifies a statutory reference which relates to public meetings.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Passed as amended Senate General Government Committee 10-1 on Thursday, February 28.
<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Senate Bill 778 (Senator Joseph Silk)</span></b><span style="color:red"> Creates the Life Appropriation Act prohibiting an agency or instrumentality of the State from awarding a grant to pay the direct or indirect
costs of performing, inducing, referring or counseling in favor of abortions. It prohibits any agency or instrumentality of the State from funding an individual or entity that performs or counsels in favor of convenience abortions or is an affiliate of a person
or entity that performs or provides referrals to convenience abortions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red"> <u>Update: </u></span></b><u><span style="color:red">Assigned to Senate Rules Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Senate Bill 883 (Senator Dave Rader)</span></b><span style="color:red"> Requires the Oklahoma Tax Commission to contract with out-of-state private auditors and audit firms, specifically to perform audit functions
related to sales and use tax collections and collections of other unpaid taxes owed by out-of-state individuals.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to Senate Finance Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Senate Bill 913 (Senator Kay Floyd)
</span></b><span style="color:red">Renames<b> </b>the Oklahoma Career Service Act from the Oklahoma Personnel Act. The act states the intent is to allow agencies flexibility in human resource management within a framework of consistent best practices across
all the state agencies and entities, retaining employees based on performance, counseling inadequate performance and unacceptable conduct, and assuring employees are protected against coercion from partisan political purposes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to Senate Appropriations Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Senate Bill 918 (Senator Paul Rosino)</span></b><span style="color:red"> Allows state employees to donate administrative hours of labor toward a charitable organization or public school. It also sets regulations
on how much time employees may donate per calendar year.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to Senate General Government Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Senate Bill 934 (Senator John Montgomery)</span></b><span style="color:red"> Creates the Oklahoma Sooner Choice Trust Act requiring every employer in the state to collect a 3 percent contribution amount from the
paycheck for every employee provided the pretax dollars shall be collected after all other deductions and remit such funds to the Oklahoma Tax Commission.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to Senate Retirement and Insurance Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Senate Bill 949 (Senator Adam Pugh)</span></b><span style="color:red"> Requires the director of each state agency to notify the Legislature in every instance in which a state employee receives a salary increase
greater than 2 percent. It requires written notice be provided to the Senate President Pro Tempore and House Speaker no fewer than 30 business days prior to the authorization of any such pay increase.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to Senate Appropriations Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Senate Joint Resolution 6 (Senator Gary Stanislawksi)</span></b><span style="color:red"> Puts to a vote of the people allowing the governor to appoint the Superintendent of Public Instruction and the Chancellor
of Higher Education.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to Senate Rules Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Joint Resolution 20 (Senator Kay Floyd) </b>Proposes a vote of the people on a constitutional amendment that prohibits members of the Legislature from engaging in certain activities during the term for which elected and, in some
cases, for two years afterwards. The amendment would prohibit being appointed or elected to any office or commission in the state during the 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. These provisions would not prohibit an employee of a 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 would not prohibit a former member from returning to his or her profession or business. The Legislature could enact laws to implement these provisions.<b><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Passed Senate Rules Committee 8-3 on Wednesday, February 27. .<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 1034 (Representative Collin Walke) </b>Requires the Oklahoma Employees Health Insurance Plan to provide coverage for the screening, diagnosis and treatment of autism spectrum disorders in individuals less than 18 years of
age.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Passed House Insurance Committee 7-0 on Tuesday, February 12. Placed on General Order.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">House Bill 1117 (Representative Kevin West)</span></b><span style="color:red"> Exempts Oklahoma from the federal daylight saving time.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><b><u><span style="color:red">Update</span></u></b><u><span style="color:red">: Assigned to House Rules Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">House Bill 1176 (Representative David Perryman)
</span></b><span style="color:red">Requires all full-time employees who were employed by the state on the last working day of June 2019, to be awarded an annualized salary increase of $2,400, effective July 1, 2019. It defines applicable terms.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to House Appropriations and Budget Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 1201 (Representative Tom Gann) </b>Limits the rulemaking authority of state agencies to implementing law or policy as specifically set by the Legislature.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Passed House Rules Committee 8-0 on Tuesday, February 19.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">House Bill 1357 (Representative Kelly Albright)</span></b><span style="color:red"> Requires each state agency that employs at least 25 employees to maintain a private lactation room that is not a restroom that
may be used by employees and members of the public to nurse a child or express breast milk, and, if practical, it is to include a refrigerator.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to House Government Efficiency Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">House Bill 1361 (Representative Toni Hasenbeck)
</span></b><span style="color:red">Requires any bill or joint resolution related to education be accompanied by a fiscal analysis estimating the increase or decrease in revenues, expenditures and actual cost of updating materials or providing new training or
instruction and the present and future fiscal impact of the proposed legislation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><b><u><span style="color:red">Update</span></u></b><u><span style="color:red">: Assigned to House Government Efficiency Committee. Dormant.</span></u><span style="color:red"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 1376 (Representative Zack Taylor) </b>Changes the Federal Poverty Guideline level used for state employees from three-person households to four-person households.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Passed House Appropriations and Budget Committee 29-0 Wednesday, February 27.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 1391 (Representative Sheila Dills)</b> Requires the employees of agency contractors in positions with access to federal tax information and data to be subjected to a criminal history search and fingerprint search by the Oklahoma
State Bureau of Investigation.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Passed House Government Efficiency Committee 11-0 on Wednesday, February 27.
<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 1886 (Representative Denise Crosswhite Hader)</b> Requires an agency proposing an administrative rule that mentions or refers to another state agency to notify the affected agency at least 30 days prior to the hearing for
adoption of the rule.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Passed House Administrative Rules Committee 7-0 on Tuesday, February 19.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">House Bill 1945 (Representative Mark Lepak)</span></b><span style="color:red"> Prohibits any state employee, employee of a school district, or any other person from knowingly or willfully using a state or school
district telephone, electronic mail or other state or school district equipment, property or services for political advocacy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><b><u><span style="color:red">Update</span></u></b><u><span style="color:red">: Assigned to House Judiciary Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 1953 (Representative Dustin Roberts) </b>Authorizes state agencies, at their discretion, up to two times annually, to offer their employees an option to voluntarily elect to be paid for a maximum of 200 hours of unused accrued
annual leave. It requires the program to be optional for all eligible employees, and the agency can choose the monthly pay period in which to provide such payment. It requires the employee to retain 120 hours of annual leave after the payment is made.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Passed House Government Efficiency Committee 11-0 on Wednesday. February 27.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 2017 (Representative Kelly Albright) </b>Requires all new construction state or municipal buildings open to the public after Jan. 1, 2020, include at least one baby changing table and if a renovation or replacement exceeds
50 percent of the value of the state or municipal building. The act states if the one table is not accessible to men and women then a table must be made accessible to men and another table made accessible to women.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Passed House Appropriations and Budget General Government Subcommittee
</u> <u>8-0 on Tuesday, February 12. Referred to full House Appropriations and Budget
</u> <u>Committee.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">House Bill 2082 (Representative Mickey Dollens)</span></b><span style="color:red"> Creates the Fair Scheduling Act which requires specific employers to supply written good-faith estimates of the employee's work
schedule at the time of hire, stating the median number of hours the employee can expect to work in an average one-month period and whether or not an employee who is not on a voluntary standby list can expect to work on-call shifts and, if so, set forth an
objective standard for when an employee not listed on the voluntary standby list may be expected to be available to work on-call shifts.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to House Business and Commerce Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 2086 (Representative Mickey Dollens)</b> Provides rates of compensation for on-call classified state employees and sets requirements for state agencies to classify job classes of individual positions within the agency subject
to on-call duty.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Laid over in House Government Efficiency<b>
</b>Committee on Wednesday, February 11. Passed House Government Efficiency Committee amended by committee substitute 11-0 on Wednesday, February 20.
<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">House Bill 2133 (Representative. Cyndi Munson)</span></b><span style="color:red"> Modifies the minimum annualized salary for state employees.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to House Appropriations and Budget Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">House Bill 2136 (Representative Cyndi Munson)
</span></b><span style="color:red">Creates the Oklahoma Council on Access to Transportation. It provides the duties of the Council. It provides for Council membership. It requires the Council to appoint an Advisory Committee to assist the Council in evaluating
Oklahoma's passenger transportation services and in formulating recommendations for their improvement. It requires these members to serve the Council for a three-year term beginning upon appointment and can be reappointed at the discretion of the Council.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to House Transportation Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">House Bill 2335 (Representative Sean Roberts)</span></b><span style="color:red"> Prohibits expenditure of public monies for publicity or propaganda opposing Second Amendment Rights.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><b><u><span style="color:red">Update</span></u></b><u><span style="color:red">: Assigned to House Judiciary Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">House Bill 2438 (Representative Sean Roberts)</span></b><span style="color:red"> Adjusts the Oklahoma Education Lottery Trust Fund appropriations. The bill lowers the amount Oklahoma State System of Higher Education
construction projects and capital outlay projects can receive from Oklahoma Education Lottery Trust Fund appropriations to $1.00.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><b><u><span style="color:red">Update</span></u></b><u><span style="color:red">: Assigned to House Rules Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 2670 (Representative Kevin Wallace</b>) Creates the Pay for Success Act. It states that it is the intent of the Legislature through the bill to authorize innovation opportunities in the form of pay-for-success contracts and
authorize success payments to be made from appropriated or other agency funds; address outcomes that span the mission and purpose of multiple agencies; provide a fund that may be used by agencies for success payments; and that the bill shall not prohibit the
use of pay-for-success contracts by municipalities, counties or other local jurisdictions.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Passed House Appropriations and Budget Committee 29-0 on Wednesday,
</u> <u>February 13. Passed House Floor 91-6 on Tuesday, February 19. <o:p>
</o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 2673 (Representative Kevin Wallace)</b> Gives full-time and part-time state officers and employees an annualized salary increase, though no salary increase is to exceed salary limitations provided in an agency's annual appropriation
or salary limits set by statue.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Passed House Appropriations and Budget Committee 30-0 on Wednesday, February 27.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Budget & Taxes</span></u></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Senate Bill 132 (Senator Joe Newhouse) S</span></b><span style="color:red">unsets on July 1, 2022, unless reauthorized by the Legislature, the $0.16 per gallon credit against the tax imposed on all gasoline, compressed
natural gas, liquefied natural gas and all diesel fuel.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to Senate Finance Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Senate Bill 169 (Senator George Young)</span></b><span style="color:red"> Makes the earned income tax credit refundable for tax years beginning on or after Jan. 1, 2019.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to Senate Finance Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 180 (Senator Gary Stanislawski) </b>Modifies the limits on credits claimed under the Oklahoma Equal Opportunity Education Scholarship Act.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to Senate Appropriations Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Senate Bill 390 (Senator Bill Coleman)</span></b><span style="color:red"> Requires an economic development or industrial development authority to make an annual in lieu of tax payment equal to the amount of ad
valorem tax which would otherwise be assessed on property in that county if that land is utilized for commercial purposes by an entity engaged in electric power generation by wind.<b>
<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><b><u><span style="color:red">Update:
</span></u></b><u><span style="color:red">Assigned to Senate Finance Committee. Dormant.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Senate Bill 395 (Senator Nathan Dahm)</span></b><span style="color:red"> Sunsets the corporate income tax on Dec. 31, 2019. The bill also updates statutory and date references related to the individual income
tax.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red"> <u>Update: </u></span></b><u><span style="color:red">Assigned to Senate Finance Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Senate Bill 404 (Senator Stephanie Bice)</span></b><span style="color:red"> Repeals language related to income tax incentives.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red"> <u>Update: </u></span></b><u><span style="color:red">Assigned to Senate Finance Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Senate Bill 406 (Senator Stephanie Bice)</span></b><span style="color:red"> Deletes obsolete language and modifies qualifying dates for an incentive or increment district as related to the Oklahoma Local Development
and Enterprise Zone Incentive Leverage Act.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red"> <u>Update: </u></span></b><u><span style="color:red">Assigned to Senate Finance Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 427 (Senator Stephanie Bice)</b> Updates statutory references related to the apportionment of gross production tax revenue.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Passed Senate Finance Committee 9-0 on Tuesday, February 12. Passed off Senate Floor 47-0 on Tuesday, February 19.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 478 (Senator J.J. Dossett)</b> Creates the Paid Family Leave Act. It requires the Department of Labor to establish a family temporary disability insurance program. It requires the insurance provide up to six weeks of wage
replacement benefits to workers who take time off work to care for a seriously ill child, spouse, parent, grandparent, grandchild, sibling or domestic partner or to bond with a minor child within one year of the birth or placement of the child in connection
with foster care or adoption. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><u>Update:</u></b><u> Assigned to Senate Business, Commerce and Tourism Committee then to Senate Appropriations Committee</u>.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 519 (Senator Kimberly David)</b> Prohibits any monies deposited in the Oil and Gas Division Revolving Fund from being transferred for any purpose to any other state agency or any account of the Corporation Commission or be
used for the purpose of contracting with any other state agency or reimbursing any other state agency for any expense, unless otherwise provided.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update:</u></b><u> Passed Senate Appropriations Committee 21-0 on Wednesday, February 20.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Senate Bill 549 (Senator Casey Murdock</span></b><span style="color:red">) Requires the first $15 million from the 7 percent gross production tax on natural gas and/or casinghead gas be deposited in the County
Improvements for Roads and Bridges Fund.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"> <b><u>Update:</u></b><u> Assigned to Senate Appropriations Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Senate Bill 557 (Senator Stephanie Bice)
</span></b><span style="color:red">Extends the sunset on the gross production tax levied on natural gas or casinghead gas to June 30, 2023.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"> <b><u>Update:</u></b><u> Assigned to Senate Appropriations Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Senate Bill 657 (Senator John Montgomery and Representative Trey Caldwell)
</span></b><span style="color:red">Adds a category of exemption for which reimbursement may be claimed under the Ad Valorem Reimbursement Fund.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><u><span style="color:red">Update:</span></u></b><u><span style="color:red"> Assigned to Senate Finance Committee then to Senate Appropriations Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Senate Bill 681 (Senator John Montgomery)</span></b><span style="color:red"> Modifies apportionments of the gross production and sales tax.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"> <b><u>Update:</u></b><u> Assigned to Senate Appropriations Committee. Dormant.</u><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Senate Bill 932 (Senator Micheal Bergstrom)</span></b><span style="color:red"> Requires the first $10 million collected from the tax levied on natural gas at a rate of 4 percent to be deposited in the Oklahoma
Quick Action Closing Fund.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to Senate Appropriations Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Senate Joint Resolution 1 (Senator Joe Newhouse)</span></b><span style="color:red"> Proposes a vote of the people to raise the balance cap on the Rainy Day Fund to 30 percent of the amount certified for the General
Revenue Fund for the prior fiscal year from 15 percent of the amount certified for the General Revenue Fund for the prior fiscal year.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to Senate Rules Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Senate Joint Resolution 9 (Senator Kevin Matthews)
</span></b><span style="color:red">Puts to a vote of the people requiring any bill that lowers a tax rate to receive a 3/4ths vote.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to Senate Rules Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Senate Joint Resolution 10 (Senator Kevin Matthews)
</span></b><span style="color:red">Puts to a vote of the people changing the required 3/4ths margin on raising taxes to a 60% margin.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to Senate Rules Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 1160 (Representative Rande Worthen) </b>Requires a taxpayer be allowed an income tax credit for qualifying educational expenses incurred during the tax year for any child who is eligible to be enrolled in a public school in
this state free of charge and who qualifies as the taxpayer's dependent for federal tax purposes, for tax years beginning after Dec. 31, 2018.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Passed House Appropriations and Budget Committee 19-11 on Wednesday, February 27.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 1404 (Representative Justin Humphrey)</b> Places a 7 percent gross production tax on natural resources mined for the purpose of producing aggregate within an unincorporated area of a county or municipality with the revenue
from the tax directed at compensating those government jurisdictions for costs associated with damage to local roads and bridges.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Passed House Appropriations and Budget Committee 5-2 on Monday, February 18.
<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">House Bill 1455 (Representative Emily Virgin)
</span></b><span style="color:red">Modifies eligibility for the capital gains deduction. It creates capital gains deduction tiers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><b><u><span style="color:red">Update</span></u></b><u><span style="color:red">: Assigned to House Appropriations and Budget Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">House Bill 2202 (Representative Kyle Hilbert)</span></b><span style="color:red"> Requires the apportionments to counties and school districts impacted by the deposit of gross production tax revenues to the Redbud
Future Fund as provided in a House Joint Resolution to be adjusted to compensate such jurisdictions and other governmental entities or funds from modifications to the apportionments provided by law.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><b><u><span style="color:red">Update</span></u></b><u><span style="color:red">: Assigned to House Rules Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">House Bill 2489 (Representative Charles McCall)</span></b><span style="color:red"> Creates the Ad Valorem Reimbursement Fund Amendments Act of 2019.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"> <b><u>Update:</u></b><u> Assigned to House Rules Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 2530 ( Representative Melodye Blancett)</b> Exempts from sales tax sales of tangible personal property or services to or by an organization which is exempt from taxation pursuant to the provisions of the Internal Revenue Code,
26 U.S.C., Section 501(c)(3), verified with a letter from the MIT Fab Foundation as an official member of the Fab Lab Network in compliance with the Fab Charter, and able to provide documentation that their primary and principal purpose is to provide community
access to advanced 21st century manufacturing and digital fabrication tools for science, technology, engineering, art and math (STEAM) learning skills, developing inventions, creating and sustaining businesses and producing personalized products.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Passed House Appropriations and Budget Subcommittee on Finance 7-0 on Monday, February 11. Passed full House Appropriations and Budget Committee 28-0 Wednesday, February 27. <o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">House Joint Resolution 1003 (Representative Kelly Albright)</span></b><span style="color:red"> Puts to a vote of the people lowering the 3/4ths margin requirement to a 3/5ths margin for any revenue raising bill.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"> <b><u>Update:</u></b><u> Assigned to House Rules Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">House Joint Resolution 1005 (Representative Mark Lepak</span></b><span style="color:red">) Puts to a vote of the people raising the maximum amount of funds for deposit in the constitutional reserve from 15% to
30%.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><u><span style="color:red">Update</span></u></b><u><span style="color:red">: Passed House Appropriations and Budget Committee 6-0 on Monday, February 11. Passed off the House Floor 26-0 on Thursday, February
21. <o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Joint Resolution 1015 (Representative Mark Lepak) </b>
Proposes a vote of the people on a constitutional amendment related to ad valorem taxes.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Passed House Rules Committee 26-0 on Wednesday, February 20.
<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Common Education <o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p><span style="text-decoration:none"> </span></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 217 (Senator Roger Thompson) </b>Requires the State Department of Education to identify school districts to implement alternative pathways toward teacher certification on a pilot program basis. It requires school districts
seeking to participate in the pilot program to submit application to the Department. It provides eligibility criteria. The bill establishes requirements for programs to be offered via the program. It requires the Department to ensure that providers approved
to participate allow teacher candidates to demonstrate pedagogy and content standard proficiency in school-based programs and through other nontraditional means<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Passed Senate Education Committee. 14-0 on Tuesday, February 19. Passed Senate Appropriations Committee 18-3 on Wednesday, February 27.<b><o:p></o:p></b></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 748 (Senator Jason Smalley)</b> Requires the State Board of Education beginning July 1, 2020 to implement the provisions of the Oklahoma Teacher Preparation Act, including approval and accreditation of teacher education programs
and assessment of candidates for licensure and certification.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Passed Senate Education Committee 12-3 on Tuesday, February 19. Passed Senate Appropriations Committee 13-7 on Wednesday, February 27.
</u><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 776 (Senator Carri Hicks</b>) Removes the requirement to pass the general education portions of the competency examination for an alternative placement teaching certificate. The bill removes the requirement to include general
education and professional education portions on competency examinations provided by the Oklahoma Commission for Teacher Preparation.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b> <u>Update</u></b><u>: Passed Senate Education Committee 15-0 on Tuesday, February 12. Passed off
</u> <u>Senate Floor 46-0 on Wednesday, February 20.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">House Bill 1067 (Representative Daniel Pae)</span></b><span style="color:red"> Modifies language related to public school teacher and administrator professional development programs concerning child abuse and
neglect. It permits the program to also include training on recognition of victims of human trafficking.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><u><span style="color:red">Update</span></u></b><u><span style="color:red">: Assigned to House Common Education Committee. Re-assigned to House Rules Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">House Bill 1316 (Representative Sherrie Conley)
</span></b><span style="color:black">Requires a person issued an emergency certification to teach receive some professional development covering classroom management, subject-specific instructional methods, school procedures and policies and writing lesson
plans before entering the classroom. The act also requires districts provide additional training opportunities throughout the year and arrange a mentor to provide support on an ongoing basis.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Passed House Common Education Committee 17-0 on Tuesday, February 26.</u><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 1905 (Representative Sherrie Conley) </b>Deletes references to the defunct Oklahoma Commission for Teacher Preparation. It adds a requirement for teacher candidates to receive training on being trauma-informed.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Passed House Higher Ed & Career Tech Committee 11-0 on Tuesday, February 26.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 1959 (Representative Melissa Provenzano) </b>Exempts certified teachers from individual annual evaluation if during the first nine weeks of the year the teacher works in a district exceeding class size limitations and district
requests the teacher cover an additional class.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Passed House Common Education Committee 16-0 on Tuesday, February 26</u>.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 1990 (Representative Jadine Nollan) </b>Requires the State Department of Education to identify school districts for an alternative teacher certification pilot program. It requires school districts seeking to participate in
the pilot program to submit applications to the State Department of Education.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Passed House Common Education Committee 14-3 on Tuesday, February 26.</u><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p><span style="text-decoration:none"> </span></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p><span style="text-decoration:none"> </span></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Career Tech</span></u></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Senate Bill 15 (Senator Ron Sharp)
</span></b><span style="color:red">Eliminates the ability for technology centers or higher education institutions to sponsor charter schools.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to Senate Education Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Senate Bill 22 (Senator Ron Sharp)</span></b><span style="color:red"> Allows certain technology schools to be examiners for driver's licenses after an application and approval process through the Department of
Public Safety.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to Senate Public Safety Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 432 (Senator Adam Pugh)</b> Requires the State Board of Career and Technology Education, to the availability of funds, which may include but not be limited to state appropriations, grant funds, foundation funds and other
funds, to establish a statewide aerospace training facility to provide education and training in the aerospace sector. It requires the board to promulgate rules that include but are not limited to criteria for enrollment in the statewide aerospace training
facility; curriculum requirements; minimum courses of study and testing requirements for the statewide aerospace training facility; minimum qualifications for instructors at the statewide aerospace training facility; and tuition for courses offered by the
statewide aerospace training facility.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Passed Senate Education Committee 13-0 on Tuesday, February 26. Passed Senate Appropriations Committee 20-0 on Wednesday, February 27.
<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 741 (Senator Jason Smalley) </b>Requires the Department of Career and Technology Education, in collaboration with the Department of Labor, prior to the beginning of the 2019-2020 school year to review and approve career readiness
assessments and assessment-based credentials that measure and document foundational workplace skills.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><u>Update:</u></b><u> Assigned to Senate Education Committee then to Senate Appropriations Committee.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 996 (Senator Kim David)</b> Requires that a science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) block course, whether taught at a comprehensive high school or technology center school, when taken in the tenth, eleventh or twelfth
grade, be taught by a certified teacher and approved by the State Board of Education and the independent district board of education to the list of courses eligible to meet the mathematics requirement and the laboratory sciences requirement for high school
graduation.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Passed Senate Education Committee 14-0 on Tuesday, February 26.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 1364 (Representative Toni Hasenbeck)</b> Directs the State Board of Career and Technology Education, in cooperation with the Department of Labor, to review and approve career-readiness assessments and assessment-based credentials
measuring and documenting workplace skills, as funding is available.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to House Higher Education and Career Tech Committee. Re-Assigned to House Business and Commerce Committee. Passed House Business and Commerce Committee 15-0 on Wednesday, February
20.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 1373 (Representative Zack Taylor)</b> Requires all state entities that are charged with oversight of occupational licenses to explicitly list the specific criminal records that would disqualify an applicant from receiving
a license or certification. The act allows licensing authorities to only list disqualifying criminal records that are specific and directly related to the duties and responsibilities of the licensed occupation and to only consider valid convictions.<b><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Passed House Business and Commerce Committee 14-0 on Wednesday, February 13.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 2026 (Representative Mark Lepak) </b>Modifies the State Board of Career and Technology Education to be an advisory board to the Director of Career and Technology Education.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to House Rules Committee.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 2027 (Representative Kelly Albright</b>) Modifies the State Board of Career and Technology Education to be an advisory board to the Director of Career and Technology Education. It transfers all duties and powers of the Board
to the Director.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to House Rules Committee.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 2279 (Representative Josh West) </b>Requires the court to waive outstanding fines, court costs and fees if the person has secured admission to and is enrolled in an institution that is a technology center school or workforce
training program. The bill requires the court to waive the fines upon the completion of each 40-hour work week.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to House Rules Committee.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Concurrent Enrollment</span></u></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 1109 (Representative Kevin West) </b>Requires the Commissioners of the Land Office to transfer from the permanent school funds to the State Department of Education the monies necessary to fund concurrent enrollment in college
or university courses for eligible high school students for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2020, and for each fiscal year thereafter. It requires the State Board of Education to determine the amount of funds necessary to fund concurrent enrollment based on
the performance of the revenues generated by the permanent school fund which are not already allocated for the use and benefit of the common schools.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Laid over in House Rules Committee on Tuesday, February 12. Passed House
</u> <u>Rules Committee 6-2 on Tuesday, February 19.</u><b><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">House Bill 2043 (Representative Dean Davis)
</span></b><span style="color:red">Expands the concurrent enrollment tuition waiver eligibility to all high school students.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><u><span style="color:red">Update</span></u></b><u><span style="color:red">: Assigned to House Higher Ed and Career Tech Committee. Re-assigned to House Rules Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">House Bill 2312 (Representative T.J. Marti)</span></b><span style="color:red"> Entitles students other than high school seniors who meet the eligibility requirements for concurrent enrollment to receive a tuition
waiver equivalent to the amount of resident tuition for a maximum of nine credit hours per year. The bill also permits courses offered at the undergraduate level through the University of Oklahoma-Tulsa Schusterman Center, Northeastern State University, Langston
University and Oklahoma State University/Tulsa to duplicate those offered by Tulsa Community College.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><u><span style="color:red">Update</span></u></b><u><span style="color:red">: Assigned to House Appropriations and Budget Committee. Re-Assigned to House Higher Ed and Career Tech Committee. Laid over on Tuesday,
February 26. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u><o:p><span style="text-decoration:none"> </span></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Healthcare</span></u></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Senate Bill 40 (Senator Paul Scott)
</span></b><span style="color:red">Ends the Soon-to-be-Sooner benefits program.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to Senate Health and Human Services Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 73 (Senator Roger Thompson and Representative Kevin Wallace)
</b>Updates several governing boards' names and modifies the maximum number of full-time-equivalent employees to the Oklahoma Board of Pharmacy.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Passed Senate Appropriations Subcommittees on Select Agencies on Wednesday, February 6. Referred to full House Appropriations and Budget Committee. Laid over on Wednesday, February 13.
<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 81 (Senator Frank Simpson and Representative Tommy Hardin)
</b>Modifies qualifications for advance practice registered nurses, permitting them to have a degree higher than a master's degree.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><u>Update:</u></b><u> Passed Senate Health and Human Services Committee 12-0 on Monday, February 25.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Senate Bill 139 (Senator J.J. Dossett)</span></b><span style="color:red"> Requires in vitro fertilization coverage for any health benefit plan that provides pregnancy-related benefits for individuals covered under
the plan.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to Senate Retirement and Insurance Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Senate Bill 146 (Senator Joe Newhouse)
</span></b><span style="color:red">Requires a health care facility that requires immunizations to grant a religious exemption to any employee who objects to an immunization against influenza on religious grounds.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to Senate Health and Human Services Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Senate Bill 218 (Senator Dewayne Pemberton)
</span></b><span style="color:red">Creates the “Oklahoma Right to Shop Act” in which enrollees are directly incentivized to shop, before and after their out-of-pocket limit has been met, for lower-cost participating health care providers or health care entities
for comparable health care services. It allows incentives to include cash payments, gift cards or credits, or reductions of premiums, copayments, cost-sharing or deductibles. Requires a carrier offering a health plan in Oklahoma in the individual or small
group insurance market to comply with provided requirements, beginning upon approval of the next health insurance rate filing in 2020.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to Senate Retirement and Insurance Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Senate Bill 434 (Senator Adam Pugh)</span></b><span style="color:red"> Authorizes the Physician Manpower Training Commission to use its physician training subsidy program for specialist physicians training.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to Senate Health and Human Services Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 605 (Senator Greg. McCortney)</b> Requires the Oklahoma Health Care Authority to establish the Oklahoma Plan within the Insure Oklahoma program. It requires the Oklahoma Plan to be a health insurance premium assistance program
administered by the Authority which will provide coverage through one or more commercial health insurers to any person who meets the requirements set forth therein and enrolls in the plan.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><u>Update:</u></b><u> Assigned to Senate Retirement and Insurance Committee then to Senate Appropriations Committee. Passed Senate Retirement and Insurance Committee 8-0 on Monday, February 25.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 1017 (Senator Marty Quinn) </b>Clarifies language related to mandated health insurance coverage related to the Oklahoma Employees Health Insurance Plan. The bill defines the term "mandated."<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Passed Senate Retirement and Insurance Committee 8-0 on Monday, February 25.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Senate Bill 1036 (Senator Kay Floyd)</span></b><span style="color:red"> Creates the Expand Medicaid Now Act. The bill requires the state to expand the Medicaid program to provide assistance to all persons who
apply and who are determined to be eligible for such assistance and for whom federal matching funds are available to the state under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, as amended by the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to Senate Appropriations Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 1018 (Representative Marcus McEntire) </b>Directs school districts to provide age appropriate HIV, AIDS and related instruction. Directing the State Department of Education to create or implement medically accurate curriculum.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to House Common Education Committee. Passed House Common Education Committee 15-0 on Tuesday, February 15.
<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">House Bill 1035 (Representative Collin Walke)
</span></b><span style="color:red">Requires any health benefit plan that is offered, issued or renewed in Oklahoma after Nov. 1, 2019, to provide coverage for evidence-based pain management treatment.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><b><u><span style="color:red">Update</span></u></b><u><span style="color:red">: Assigned to House Insurance Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">House Bill 1058 (Representative Marcus McEntire)</span></b><span style="color:red"> Updates language in Oklahoma public employee insurance policies, including from State and Education Oklahoma Employees Group
Insurance Board to the Oklahoma Employees Insurance and Benefits Board.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><u><span style="color:red">Update</span></u></b><u><span style="color:red">: Assigned to House Rules Committee. Re-assigned to House Insurance committee. Laid over on Tuesday, February 26. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">House Bill 1082 (Representative Shane Stone)</span></b><span style="color:red"> Directs the Oklahoma Health Care Authority to seek Medicaid waiver authority so SoonerCare recipients under the age of 18 will be
universally covered and will not have to meet income guidelines, contingent on approval from federal Medicare and Medicaid Services and available state funding.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><b><u><span style="color:red">Update</span></u></b><u><span style="color:red">: Assigned to House Appropriations and Budget Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">House Bill 1098 (Representative Kevin West)</span></b><span style="color:red"> Prohibits discrimination against unvaccinated employees.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><u><span style="color:red">Update: Assigned to House Rules Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">House Bill 1140 (Representative Danny Sterling)
</span></b><span style="color:red">Requires any state and education employee group health insurance plan to provide coverage for annual preventative health examinations without limiting or diminishing diagnostic benefits.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><b><u><span style="color:red">Update</span></u></b><u><span style="color:red">: Assigned to House Insurance Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">House Bill 1327 (Representative Marcus McEntire)</span></b><span style="color:red"> Creates the Oklahoma Medicaid Expansion Act.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"> <b><u>Update:</u></b><u> Assigned to House Rules Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 1439 (Representative Tom Gann</b>) Recreates the State Board of Medical Licensure and Supervision.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update:</u></b><u> Passed House Administrative Rules Committee 9-0 on Tuesday, February 26.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">House Bill 1457 (Representative Emily Virgin)</span></b><span style="color:red"> Creates the Oklahoma Medicaid Expansion Act.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><b><u><span style="color:red">Update</span></u></b><u><span style="color:red">: Assigned to House Rules Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">House Bill 1869 (Representative Andy Fugate</span></b><span style="color:red">) Creates the Oklahoma Medicaid Expansion Act.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><b><u><span style="color:red">Update</span></u></b><u><span style="color:red">: Assigned to House Rules Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><u><span style="color:red"><o:p><span style="text-decoration:none"> </span></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">House Bill 2441 (Representative Sean Roberts)
</span></b><span style="color:red">Requires a contracted hospital or inpatient facility to provide notice to an enrollee at the time they schedule a procedure whether or not the enrollee's insurance carrier covers the service at that facility and provide a
noncontracted provider with a good-faith estimate of charges and certain disclosures. The act sets further conditions for facilities carrying for noncontracted enrollees.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><b><u><span style="color:red">Update</span></u></b><u><span style="color:red">: Assigned to House Rules Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Higher Education</span></u></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Senate Bill 90 (Senator Adam Pugh)
</span></b><span style="color:red">Extends the sunset date for the State Accrediting Agency to July 1, 2024.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red"> <u>Update:</u></span></b><u><span style="color:red"> Assigned to Senate General Government Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Senate Bill 103 (Senator George Young)
</span></b><span style="color:red">Encourages the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education to utilize appropriated funds to support entrepreneurship, with special emphasis upon providing support to minority communities in the state.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to Senate Education Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Senate Bill 152 (Senator Allison Ikley-Freeman)
</span></b><span style="color:red">Prohibits Oklahoma State System of Higher Education institutions from charging a fee to a person who is enrolled in the institution or who was previously enrolled in the institution, regardless of whether they graduated from
the institution, for the first two copies of a person's college transcript.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to Senate Education Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Senate Bill 159 (Senator Joe Newhouse)
</span></b><span style="color:red">Creates the Kansas State University License Plate.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to Senate Transportation Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Senate Bill 183 (Senator Brent Howard)</span></b><span style="color:red"> Requires governing boards of two-year colleges within the Oklahoma State System of Higher Education be consolidated if: 1) the governing
boards of two or more two-year colleges propose a plan to voluntarily consolidate and submit the plan, and 2) the voluntary consolidation plan is affirmatively approved by the Legislature by adoption of a joint resolution.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to Senate Education Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 194 (Senator Stephanie Bice and Representative Nicole Miller)
</b>Removes the requirement for teacher candidates enrolled in an elementary or early childhood education program to pass a comprehensive assessment to measure their teaching skills in the area of reading instruction.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Passed Senate Education Committee 15-0 on Tuesday, February 12. Passed off Senate Floor 47-0 on Tuesday, February 19.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Senate Bill 211 (Senator Joe Newhouse)</span></b><span style="color:red"> Prohibits resident tuition from being charged by institutions with the Oklahoma State System of Higher Education and the State Board of
Career and Technology Education to state residents presenting proper certification from the United States Veterans Administration or the Armed Forces of the United States that the veteran has a service-connected disability rating of 50 percent or more. It
limits the resident tuition waiver to a period of five years.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><u><span style="color:red">Update</span></u></b><u><span style="color:red">: Passed Senate Education Committee 13-2 on Tuesday, February 12. Referred to Senate Appropriations Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Senate Bill 348 (Senator Stephanie Bice</span></b><span style="color:red">) Removes the requirement for a tenant in a Small Business Incubator to make at least 75% of its gross sales constituting the principal
business activity of the business to buyers located outside the state or to buyers whose principal business activity is conducted outside the state to qualify for the income tax exemption. The measure also repeals the tax exemption given to sponsors.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><b><u><span style="color:red">Update</span></u></b><u><span style="color:red">: Assigned to Senate Finance Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 361 (Senator Julie Daniels) </b>Deems the outdoor areas of public institutions of higher education public forums for the campus community. It prohibits public institutions of higher education from creating "free speech zones"
or other designated areas of campus outside of which expressive activities are prohibited.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Passed Senate Judiciary Committee 8-4 on Tuesday, February 26.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Senate Bill 391 (Senator Kevin Matthews)
</span></b><span style="color:red">Appropriates $300,000 from the FY2020 General Revenue Fund to the Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry to be transferred to Oklahoma State University and Langston University for the purpose of funding urban agriculture
and farmers' market programs for food deserts.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to Senate Appropriations Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 407 (Senator Dave Rader)</b> Modifies provisions of the Oklahoma Equal Opportunity Education Scholarship Act.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b> <u>Update: </u></b><u>Passed Senate Finance Committee 15-7 on Wednesday, February 13.</u>
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Senate Bill 409 (Senator Joe Newhouse)</span></b><span style="color:red"> Requires a court to waive outstanding fines, court costs and fees if the offender has secured admission to, is enrolled in and is actively
pursuing completion in a program of study in an institution which is a member of the Oklahoma State System of Higher Education or technology center school or a workforce training program intended to expand further employment opportunities. It requires the
court to waive the fines, court costs and fees based on the equivalent value of the potential gross income of the offender as established by the minimum wage rate of the state upon the offender's completion of each 40-hour work week during the length of the
program.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to Senate Judiciary Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Senate Bill 439 (Senator Marty Quinn)</span></b><span style="color:red"> Requires a terminal degree granted by a college recognized by the State Board of Education be granted equal recognition as a doctorate degree
for teacher salary determinations.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to Senate Appropriations Committee. Withdrawn by Author. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Senate Bill 464 (Senator Michael Brooks)</span></b><span style="color:red"> Requires Oklahoma State System of Higher Education institutions to grant a waiver equivalent to the amount of resident tuition and fees
incurred by a student, beginning with the 2019-2020 academic year, who is a resident of this state; has satisfied the admission standards as determined by The Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education for first-time entering students for the appropriate
type of institution; and is the child of a parent or legal guardian who has vested in the Oklahoma Teachers' Retirement System.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to Senate Education Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Senate Bill 465 (Senator Michael Brooks)</span></b><span style="color:red"> Requires the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education to adopt a policy which allows a student to enroll in an institution within
the Oklahoma State System of Higher Education as an undergraduate student and allows the student to be eligible for resident tuition if the student graduated from a public high school in this state with a grade point average in the top 10 percent of the student's
high school graduating class.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to Senate Education Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 485 (Senator Micheal Bergstrom</b>) Creates a sunset date for the Small Business Incubators Incentives Act. The tax exemption ends on tax years after January 1, 2020.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update:</u></b><u> Passed Senate Finance Committee 8-1 on Tuesday February, 12. Passed off the</u>
<u>House Floor 47-0 on Wednesday, February 20. <o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 491 (Senator Dewayne Pemberton)</b> Creates the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education Modernization Act of 2019. It provides the purpose of the act to implement the recommendations of the Task Force on the Future of
Higher Education established by the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education to improve the structure of The Oklahoma State System of Higher Education through modernization and efficiency.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update:</u></b><u> Passed Senate Education Committee 11-2 on Tuesday, February 26.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 597 (Senator Gary Stanislawski)</b> Creates a task force to study how four-year colleges within the Oklahoma State System of Higher Education can assist two-year colleges to save money. It provides for membership. It requires
the task force to be subject to the Oklahoma Open Meeting Act.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update:</u></b><u> Passed Senate Education Committee 14-0 on Tuesday, February 19.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 602 (Senator Gary Stanislawski) </b>Creates a task force to study and make recommendations to the Legislature on efficiencies in operating and governing two-year colleges within The Oklahoma State System of Higher Education
until July 1, 2020. It provides for membership. It requires appointments to be made within 30 days after the effective date and for the task force to conduct an organization meeting not later than Aug. 31, 2019. It requires the task force to be subject to
the Oklahoma Open Meeting Act. It requires the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education to provide staff and administrative support for the task force.<b><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update:</u></b><u> Passed Senate Education Committee 13-0 on Tuesday, February 19.
<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 765 (Senator Greg McCortney)</b> Prohibits the smoking of marijuana in public places. The bill permits institutions of the Oklahoma State System of Higher Education to declare themselves marijuana free, including free of
marijuana and marijuana products. It exempts from the restrictions on marijuana smoking medical research or treatment centers, if marijuana smoking is integral to the research or treatment.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><u>Update:</u></b><u> Passed Senate Health and Human Services Committee 11-0 on Monday, February 18.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 804 (Senator Stephanie Bice) Allows </b>a patron to leave the premise with an open container of beer or wine if the act is committed during the hours of 8 a.m. to midnight on the day of a scheduled home football game of institutions
within The Oklahoma State System of Higher Education and the location is within 2,000 feet of the institution or a sponsored single day art or music event within city limits.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><u>Update: Passed Senate Business Commerce and Tourism Committee 8-1 on Thursday, February 14.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Senate Bill 939 (Senator Adam Pugh)</span></b><span style="color:red"> Adds accreditation by the Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing or the Commission of Collegiate Nursing Education to requirements
for advanced practice registered nursing education programs and requires an advanced practice registered nursing program show evidence of periodic on-campus attendance for assessment and evaluation of students' progress and competence in addition to completing
a minimum 1,000 clinical hours in the graduate program.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to Senate General Health and Human Services Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">House Bill 1190 (Representative Tommy Hardin)
</span></b><span style="color:red">Requires the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry appoint all Oklahoma State University county cooperative extension service personnel. The bill also requires the agency be involved in conducting farm demonstration
work and home demonstration work.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><b><u><span style="color:red">Update</span></u></b><u><span style="color:red">: Assigned to House Agriculture and Rural Development Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">House Bill 1448 (Representative Tom Gann)</span></b><span style="color:red"> Recreates the State Accrediting Agency.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><b><u><span style="color:red">Update</span></u></b><u><span style="color:red">: Assigned to House Administrative Rules Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 1921 (Representative Derrel Fincher) </b>Creates the Oklahomans Virtually Everywhere Act of 2019, directing the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education, the State Board of Career and Technology Education, the Department
of Commerce, and the Office of Management and Enterprise Services to research and develop a proposal to make Oklahoma a leader in virtual presence.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to House Government Efficiency Committee. Re-assigned to House Higher Education and Career Tech Committee. Passed House Higher Education and Career Tech Committee 11-0 on Tuesday,
February 26. <o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">House Bill 2042 (Representative Dean Davis)</span></b><span style="color:red"> Allows courses offered at the undergraduate level through Northeastern State University to duplicate those offered by Tulsa Community
College.<br>
<b><u>Update:</u></b><u> Assigned to House Higher Education and Career Tech Committee. Laid Over
<o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><u><span style="color:red">Tuesday February 26. Dormant.</span></u><span style="color:red"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"><br>
<b>House Bill 2064 (Representative Mark Lepak)</b> Creates the “Oklahoma Accrediting Agency Reauthorization Act."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><b><u><span style="color:red">Update</span></u></b><u><span style="color:red">: Assigned to House Rules Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br>
<b><span style="color:red">House Bill 2225 (Representative Todd Russ)</span></b><span style="color:red"> Prohibits any alcoholic beverages being stored, sold, dispensed, served or consumed on the premises of an Oklahoma State System of Higher Education institution.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><b><u><span style="color:red">Update</span></u></b><u><span style="color:red">: Assigned to House Rules Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">House Bill 2228 (Representative Todd Russ)</span></b><span style="color:red"> Requires the board of regents for each institution within the Oklahoma State System of Higher Education to adopt a student housing
policy that prohibits coeducational housing in dorms, halls or other student housing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><b><u><span style="color:red">Update</span></u></b><u><span style="color:red">: Assigned to House Rules Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">House Bill 2261 (Representative Kenton Patzkowsky)</span></b><span style="color:red"> Creates the Teacher Incentive Program. The bill requires The Oklahoma State System of Higher Education to exempt up to 202
persons annually from the payment of tuition, dues and fees up to $5,000 and establishes eligibility.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><b><u><span style="color:red">Update</span></u></b><u><span style="color:red">: Assigned to House Higher Education and Career Tech Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">House Bill 2438 (Representative Sean Roberts)</span></b><span style="color:red"> Adjusts the Oklahoma Education Lottery Trust Fund appropriations. The bill lowers the amount Oklahoma State System of Higher Education
construction projects and capital outlay projects can receive from Oklahoma Education Lottery Trust Fund appropriations to $1.00.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red"> <u>Update: </u></span></b><u><span style="color:red">Assigned to House Rules Committee. Dormant.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">House Bill 2643 (Representative Rhonda Baker)</span></b><span style="color:red"> Creates the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education Modernization Act of 2019. It provides the purpose of the act to implement
the recommendations of the Task Force on the Future of Higher Education established by the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education to improve the structure of The Oklahoma State System of Higher Education through modernization and efficiency.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><b><u><span style="color:red">Update:
</span></u></b><u><span style="color:red">Assigned to House Rules Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="color:red"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">House Bill 2672 (Representative Kevin Wallace)</span></b><span style="color:red"> Removes certain requirements for appointed members of the Oklahoma State University Medical Authority.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><b><u><span style="color:red">Update</span></u></b><u><span style="color:red">: Assigned to House Rules Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">House Joint Resolution 1008 (Representative Mark Lepak)</span></b><span style="color:red"> Proposes a vote of the people on a constitutional amendment related to the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><b><u><span style="color:red">Update</span></u></b><u><span style="color:red">: Assigned to House Rules Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Medical Marijuana/Industrial Hemp</span></u></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 31 (Senator Wayne Shaw) </b>Adds measurements in grams to the limits for medical marijuana possession.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Passed Senate Health & Human Services Committee 11-0 on Monday, February
</u> <u>18. <o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 162 (Senator Rob Standridge)</b> Modifies the qualifications for physicians to sign medical marijuana license applications to include those who are licensed by and in good standing with the State Board of Medical Licensure
and Supervision or the State Board of Osteopathic Examiners rather than only those who are Oklahoma Board certified.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Passed Senate Health & Human Services Committee 13-0 on Monday, February
</u> <u>18.</u><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Senate Bill 213 (Senator Larry Boggs)</span></b><span style="color:red"> Modifies the qualifications for physicians to sign medical marijuana license applications to include those who are licensed by and in good
standing with the State Board of Medical Licensure and Supervision or the State Board of Osteopathic Examiners rather than only those who are Oklahoma Board certified.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to Senate Health & Human Services Committee. Dormant.</u><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 238 (Senator Rob Standridge) </b>Requires any manufactured product containing cannabidiol to include a label which contains the country of origin of the cannabidiol and whether the cannabidiol is synthetic or natural.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Passed Senate Health & Human Services Committee 13-0 on Monday, February
</u> <u>11.</u><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 242 (Senator Rob Standridge) </b>Providing for registration and regulation of pain-management clinics.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Passed Senate Health & Human Services Committee 13-0 on Monday February 11. Passed Senate Appropriations. Title stricken. Passed Senate Appropriations Committee 21-0 on Wednesday, February
20. <o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 305 (Senator Julie Daniels)</b> Prohibits an employer from refusing to hire, disciplining, discharging or otherwise penalizing an applicant or employee solely on the basis of such applicant's or employee's status as a medical
marijuana licensee or on the basis of a positive test for marijuana components.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Passed Senate Business, Commerce and Tourism Committee 11-0 on Thursday
</u> <u>February 21. Title stricken.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 307 (Senator Julie Daniels) </b>Levies an excise tax on retail medical marijuana sales at the rate of 7 percent of the gross sales by the seller.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Passed Senate Finance Committee 7-2 on Tuesday, February 19. Passed Senate Appropriations Committee 14-7 on Wednesday, February 27.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Senate Bill 325 (Representative Casey Murdock)</span></b><span style="color:red"> A county may, by vote of a majority of the registered voters in the county, restrict or prohibit the possession, consumption, transport,
sale, cultivation or manufacture of marijuana or marijuana products, or any combination thereof.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to Senate Rules Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 421 (Senator Stephanie Bice)</b> Modifies prohibited acts under the Uniform Controlled Dangerous Substances Act. It modifies the penalties for those found in violation of the acts prohibited therein. It requires a person
in possession of a substance classified in Schedule I or II, except for marijuana, involving one-quarter of a gram or more of the Schedule I or II substance, upon conviction, to be guilty of a felony, and to be sentenced to a term of imprisonment in the custody
of the Department of Corrections.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Passed Senate Public Safety Committee 12-0 on Monday, February 11. Passed
</u> <u>Senate Appropriations Committee 21-0 on Wednesday, February 20. Title stricken.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 554 (Senator Casey Murdock)</b> Creates the Industrial Hemp Production Act. It requires the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry to develop a plan to license and regulate industrial hemp production.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><u>Update: </u></b><u>Passed Senate Agriculture and Wildlife Committee 9-0 on Monday, February 25. Title stricken. Passed Senate Appropriations Committee 20-0 on Wednesday, February 27.<b><o:p></o:p></b></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><br>
<span style="color:red">Senate Bill 555 (Senator Marty Quinn</span></b><span style="color:red">) Modifies the definition of "hemp" under the Uniform Controlled Dangerous Substances Act.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"> <b><u>Update:</u></b><u> Assigned to Senate Public Safety Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 754 (Senator Greg McCortney) </b>Clarifies language related to medical marijuana. The bill also modifies the apportionment of revenue from the gross receipts tax on medical marijuana. It changes the apportionment of 25 percent
of the revenue to the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services from the State Department of Health.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><u>Update:</u></b><u> Passed Senate Health and Human Services Committee 11-2 on Monday, February 18. Passed Senate Appropriations Committee 20-0 on Wednesday, February 20.
<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br>
<b>Senate Bill 755 (Senator Greg McCortney)</b> Prohibits all marijuana advertising and labels of usable marijuana and marijuana products sold from containing any statement or illustration that is false or misleading; promotes overconsumption; represents that
the use of marijuana has curative or therapeutic effects; or depicts a child or other person under legal age to consume marijuana; or includes objects such as toys, cartoon or other characters, which suggest the presence of a child, or any other depiction
designed in any manner to be especially appealing to children.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><b><u>Update:</u></b><u> Passed Senate Health and Human Services Committee 12-0 on Monday,
</u> <u>February 18.</u><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 756 (Senator Greg McCortney</b>) Requires all medical marijuana and medical marijuana products shall be packaged in child resistant packages as required by the federal Poison Prevention Packaging Act of 1970.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><b><u>Update:</u></b><u> Passed Senate Health and Human Services Committee 9-3 on Monday, February
</u> <u>18.</u><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 758 (Senator Greg McCortney)</b> Authorizes the State Board of Medical Licensure and Supervision to issue guidance to all allopathic physicians on the recommending of medical marijuana to patients.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><b><u>Update:</u></b><u> Passed Senate Health and Human Services Committee 9-3 on Monday, February
</u> <u>18.</u><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 759 (Senator Greg McCortney</b>) Provides that a physician who recommends use of medical marijuana cannot accept, solicit or offer any form of pecuniary remuneration from or to a caregiver, dispensary, processor, or commercial
grower; offer a discount or any other thing of value to a patient who uses or agrees to use a particular caregiver or dispensary; examine a patient for the purposes of recommending medical marijuana at a location where medical marijuana is dispensed; or hold
any economic interest in an enterprise that grows, transports, processes, or dispenses medical marijuana.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><u>Update:</u></b><u> Passed Senate Health and Human Services Committee 11-0 on Monday, February 18.
</u><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 760 (Senator Greg McCortney)</b> Clarifies language related to medical marijuana. The bill requires a short-term medical marijuana license application be made available on the State Department of Health's website that will
be granted to any applicant who can meet the requirements for a two-year medical marijuana license, but whose physician recommendation for medical marijuana is only valid for 60 days. It requires the fee for a short-term license and the procedure for extending
or renewing the license shall be determined by the Department of Health.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><u>Update:</u></b><u> Passed Senate Health and Human Services Committee 10-0 on Monday, February 18.
</u><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 763 (Senator Greg McCortney)</b> Clarifies language related to medical marijuana. The bill also permits a physician, when providing a medical marijuana recommendation to set, at his or her discretion, a maximum amount of
tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) that the patient may purchase each month.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><b><u>Update:</u></b><u> Passed Senate Health and Human Services Committee 9-2 on Monday, February
</u> <u>18.</u><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 764 (Senator Greg McCortney)</b> Requires the State Department of Health to create a medical marijuana use registry for physicians, patients and caregivers. It requires the handling of any records maintained in the registry
be compliant with the provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><u>Update:</u></b><u> Passed Senate Health and Human Services Committee 11-0 on Monday February 18.</u><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 765 (Senator Greg McCortney)</b> Prohibits the smoking of marijuana in public places. The bill permits institutions of the Oklahoma State System of Higher Education to declare themselves marijuana free, including free of
marijuana and marijuana products. It exempts from the restrictions on marijuana smoking medical research or treatment centers, if marijuana smoking is integral to the research or treatment.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><u>Update:</u></b><u> Passed Senate Health and Human Services Committee 11-0 on Monday, February 18.</u><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 767 (Senator Greg McCortney) </b>Creates the Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Authority to address issues related to the medical marijuana program in Oklahoma including, but not limited to, promulgating rules relating to the issuance
of patient licenses, medical marijuana business licenses and occupational licenses, and the dispensing, cultivating, processing, testing, transporting, storage, research and the use of and sale of medical marijuana as outlined in State Question No. 788<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><u>Update:</u></b><u> Passed Senate Health and Human Services Committee 11-0 on Monday, February 18. Passed Senate Appropriations Committee 19-0 on Wednesday, February 20.</u><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 768 (Senator Greg McCortney</b>) Requires the State Department of Health to develop and implement a medical marijuana testing program to test medical marijuana and medical marijuana products for contaminants and for concentration
of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), cannabidiol (CBD) and any other chemicals deemed necessary by the department.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><u>Update:</u></b><u> Passed Senate Health and Human Services Committee 11-0 on Monday, February 18. Passed Senate Appropriations Committee 19-0 on Wednesday, February 20.</u><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 811 (Senator Jason Smalley) </b>Prohibits biomedical and clinical medical marijuana research subject to federal regulation and institutional oversight from being subjected to State Department of Health oversight.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Passed Senate Health and Human Services Committee 11-0 on Monday, February 11.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 863 (Senator Mark Allen)</b> Creates the Industrial Hemp Production Act to require the Department of Agriculture to develop a plan to license and regulate industrial hemp production in collaboration with the Office of the
Governor and the Office of the Attorney General.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Passed Senate Agriculture and Wildlife Committee 11-0 on Monday, February 25.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 868 (Senator Lonnie Paxton)</b> Allows a grower licensee to engage in the growth and cultivation of industrial hemp from certified seeds for commercial purposes and establishes guidelines for grower licenses.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Passed Senate Agriculture and Wildlife Committee 11-0 on Monday, February 25.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 887 (Senator Kim David)</b> Allows counties to establish, assess and collect fees from medical marijuana licensees or caregivers who, upon request and approval by the county where the person resides, exceeds the maximum possession
limits. The act only authorizes the person to exceed the set limits of possession within the borders of the county.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Passed Senate Health and Human Services Committee 11-0 on Monday, February 18.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Senate Bill 911 (Senator Paul Scott)</span></b><span style="color:red"> Authorizes the Oklahoma Tax Commission to review applicable statutes, agency rules and procedures to determine if the excise tax levies on
the sale of marijuana may be remitted electronically in the form of virtual currency, then make a recommendation to the Governor, State Senate and State House of Representatives by Dec. 31, 2019.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to Senate Finance Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 1030 (Senator Lonnie Paxton)</b> Clarifies language related to medical marijuana. The bill permits an employer to take action against the holder of a medical marijuana license solely based upon the status of an employee as
a medical marijuana license holder or the results of a drug test showing positive for marijuana or its components if the person is employed in a safety-sensitive position.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Passed Senate Health and Human Services Committee 8-4 on Monday, February 25.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 1100 (Representative Robert Manger) </b>Redefines transporting with the intent to distribute or dispense and possessing with the intent to manufacture, distribute or dispense from the Uniform Controlled Dangerous Substance
Act to specifically cover synthetic controlled substances. The act also sets factors that must be involved to prove intent to distribute, dispense or manufacture Schedule I or II drugs, except for marijuana and states at least three of these factors must be
present.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update:</u></b><u> Passed House Public Safety Committee 8-3 on Thursday, February 28.
<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 1389 (Representative Tammy Townley)</b> Adds lighted marijuana or electronic cigarettes or similar devices to the definition of "smoking" in the Smoking in Public Places and Indoor Workplaces Act.<br>
<b><u>Update:</u></b><u> Assigned to House Rules Committee. Re-assigned to House Public Safety</u>
<u>Committee. Passed House Public Safety Committee 9-0 on Thursday, February 28. </u>
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 1932 (Representative Robert Manger)</b> Specifies the measurement in grams and ounces of medical marijuana product a licensee can possess.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><u>Update:</u></b><u> Assigned to House Rules Committee. Re-assigned to House Public Safety Committee. Passed House Public Safety Committee 11-0 on Thursday, February 28.</u><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">House Bill 2309 (Representative Avery Frix)
</span></b><span style="color:red">Modifies language related to the Uniform Controlled Dangerous Substances Act. It makes it unlawful to manufacture or distribute any synthetic controlled substance, except when authorized by the Food and Drug Administration
of the United States Department of Health and Human Services or to transport with intent to distribute or dispense, possess with intent to distribute, or possess with intent to manufacture a controlled dangerous substance, a synthetic controlled substance
or an imitation controlled substance.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"> <b><u>Update:</u></b><u> Assigned to House Judiciary Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 2601 (Representative Jon Echols) </b>Clarifies language related to medical marijuana. The bill also authorizes a county to establish, assess and collect fees from medical marijuana licensees or caregivers who, upon request
and approval by the county where the person currently resides, exceed the maximum possession limits established in law. It limits the authority granted by a county to a medical marijuana licensee or caregiver to exceed maximum possession limits to apply only
within the borders of that county.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update:</u></b><u> Passed House Rules Committee 8-0 on Tuesday, February 26.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 2612 (Representative John Echols) </b>It creates the Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Authority within the State Department of Health to address issues related to the medical marijuana program in Oklahoma including, but not limited
to, the issuance of patient licenses, medical marijuana business licenses and occupational licenses, and the dispensing, cultivating, processing, testing, transporting, storage, research, and the use of and sale of medical marijuana.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><u>Update:</u></b><u> Passed with a committee substitute House Rules Committee 6-0 on Thursday, February 21. Passed off House Floor on Thursday, February 28.
<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 2614 (Representative John Echols) </b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Passed House Rules Committee as amended by committee substitute with a vote of 8-0 on Tuesday, February 26</u>.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Oklahoma’s Promise</span></u></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 80 (Senator Roger Thompson) </b>Expands Oklahoma’s Promise eligibility to those who have completed schooling other than private or public and performed at a proficient level on statewide student assessments.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Passed Senate Education Committee 14-0 on Tuesday, February 19. Passed Senate Appropriations Committee 20-0 on Thursday, February 28.
<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 581 (Senator Joseph Silk) </b>Provides Oklahoma Higher Learning Access Program eligibility for students adopted while in the custody of a federally recognized Indian tribe or an out-of-state public child welfare agency and
is a resident of Oklahoma at the time eligibility is determined.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><u>Update:</u></b><u> Passed Senate Education Committee 15-0 on Tuesday, February 12. Assigned to Senate Appropriations Committee.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 2018 (Representative Monroe Nichols)</b> Includes the child of a person who is employed as a certified teacher as a student qualified for an award which includes payment of an amount equivalent to resident tuition or other
tuition for participation in the Oklahoma Higher Learning Access Program.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><u>Update:</u></b><u> Passed House Higher Education and Career Tech Committee on Tuesday, February 26.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 2227 (Representative Todd Russ) </b>Provides eligibility for a child of a teacher to the Oklahoma Higher Learning Access Program if the adjusted gross income of the student's parents does not exceed $150,000 per year.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to House Rules Committee. Passed House Rules Committee 7-0 on Thursday, February 28.
<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">House Bill 2293 (Representative Harold Wright)
</span></b><span style="color:red">Allows student agreements to be witnessed by an adult with physical custody of the student as verified by the school district.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><b><u><span style="color:red">Update</span></u></b><u><span style="color:red">: Assigned to House Rules Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt">OneNet/Information Technology<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 227 (Senator Roger Thompson) </b>Creates the Oklahoma Information Services Department Act. The bill creates the Oklahoma Information Services Department, into which the Office of Management and Enterprise Services Information
Services Division will be consolidated. Higher Education is exempt.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b> <u>Update: </u></b><u>Passed Senate Appropriations Committee on Wednesday, February 27.
<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 1002 (Senator James Leewright</b>) Creates the Facilitating Internet Broadband Rural Expansion (FIBRE) Act. It prohibits cross-subsidization between a rural electric cooperative electricity services and the provision or operation
of emerging communications technologies by such rural electric cooperative or through an affiliate of such rural electric cooperative.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Passed Senate Business Commerce and Tourism Committee 7-2 on Thursday,
</u> <u>February 21.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Public Safety/Campus Safety/Weapons</span></u></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Senate Bill 12 (Senator Nathan Dahm)
</span></b><span style="color:red">Constitutional Carry: permits a person at least 21 years of age or older, or 18 years of age but not yet 21 and a member or veteran of the United States Armed Forces, Reserves or National Guard or was discharged under honorable
conditions, and who is otherwise not disqualified from the possession or purchase of a firearm under state or federal law and is not carrying the firearm in furtherance of a crime to carry a firearm, concealed or unconcealed, loaded or unloaded.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to Senate Public Safety Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 24 (Senator Micheal Bergstrom) </b>Removes a firearm with an overall length of 26 inches or more from the definition of "pistols" or "handguns" in the Oklahoma Firearms Act of 1971. Changes Definitions of “shotguns” and other
weapons based on barrel length.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Passed Senate Public Safety Committee 7-2 on Monday, February 26.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 34 (Senator Wayne Shaw) </b>Requires OSBI to check the National Instant Criminal Background Check System prior to issuing a Self-Defense Act license. Gives a 90-day window from the date establishing a residence to apply for
an Oklahoma handgun license if bringing a license from another state. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Passed Senate Public Safety Committee 10-0 on Monday, February 25. Passed Senate Appropriations Committee 20-0 on Wednesday, February 27.
<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Senate Bill 38 (Senator David Bullard)
</span></b><span style="color:red">Authorizes the carrying of firearms in the State Capitol.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to Senate Rules Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Senate Bill 46 (Senator Paul Scott)</span></b><span style="color:red"> Removes the restriction for convicted felons to ride in a car with a concealed weapon. Removes the phrases “machine-gun, sawed-off shotgun
or rifle” and “dangerous or deadly” from the convicted felons and delinquents restrictions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to Senate Public Safety Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 87 (Senator J.J. Dossett)</b> Permits a person to carry a concealed or unconcealed handgun without a license if they are 18 to 21 years of age and a member of the United States Armed Forces, the Reserves or National Guard.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Passed Senate Public Safety Committee 12-0 on Monday, February 19.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Senate Bill 345 (Senator Casey Murdock)
</span></b><span style="color:red">Constitutional carry bill: allows anyone who is over the age of 21 or over the age of 18 if they are a member or veteran of the United States Armed Forces, Reserves or National Guard or was honorably discharged from one of
those services to carry a firearm, whether concealed or unconcealed, loaded or unloaded. The bill precludes anyone who was convicted of assault and battery, stalking, violation of a domestic abuse protection order, or a violation relating to illegal drug use
or possession under the Uniform Controlled Dangerous Substances Act. The act states a person can have a firearm on property set aside for parking by a college, university or technology center school.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to Senate Public Safety Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Senate Bill 364 (Senator Nathan Dahm)</span></b><span style="color:red"> Prohibits any person, property owner, tenant, employer, or business entity from maintaining, establishing or enforcing any policy or rule
that has the effect of prohibiting any person or employee, except a convicted felon, from transporting, carrying or storing firearms or ammunition in a locked motor vehicle on any property set aside for any motor vehicle or a motor vehicle owned, leased or
rented by the person or employee to conduct business for the business entity.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to Senate Public Safety Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Senate Bill 431 (Senator Marty Quinn)<u>
</u></span></b><span style="color:red">Modifies the notification requirement to law enforcement for an individual in possession of a concealed or unconcealed handgun. It removes the requirement that they notify the law enforcement officer when they come in
contact with them and replaces it with language that requires the notification on demand of the law enforcement officer. It removes the requirement that the notification be made at the first opportunity.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to Senate Public Safety Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Senate Bill 619 (Senator James Leewright)</span></b><span style="color:red"> Deletes a section on notification procedures related to unlawful carry of firearms on colleges, universities or technology centers.
It updates statutory reference.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><b><u><span style="color:red">Update:</span></u></b><u><span style="color:red"> Assigned to Senate Public Safety Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="color:red"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Senate Bill 671 (Senator David Bullard and Representative Sean Roberts)</span></b><span style="color:red"> Allows the board of education of a school district to adopt a policy to authorize the carrying of a handgun
onto school property by school personnel specifically designated by the board of education, provided such personnel meet specified criteria therein.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"> <b><u>Update:</u></b><u> Assigned to Senate Education Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 708 (Senator Kim David )</b> Allows the city council or board of trustees for a city or municipality to, through a majority vote, designate personnel who have been issued a handgun license to attend an armed security guard
training program or a reserve peace officer certification program.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><b><u>Update:</u></b><u> Passed Senate Public Safety Committee 11-0 on Monday, February 25.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Senate Bill 775 (Senator Paul Scott)</span></b><span style="color:red"> Prohibits the state or any state government entity from creating any order, policy, ordinance or regulation touching in any way firearm and
ammunition components. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><b><u><span style="color:red">Update:</span></u></b><u><span style="color:red"> Assigned to Senate Public Safety Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 781 (Senator Paul Scott)</b> Prohibits any person or business entity from establishing or enforcing any policy or rule that has the effect of prohibiting any person or employee, except a convicted felon, from carrying or
storing firearms or ammunition in a motor vehicle owned, leased or rented by the person or employee while conducting business for the business entity.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b> <u>Update: </u></b><u>Passed Senate Public Safety Committee 9-2 on Monday, February 25.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Senate Bill 796 (Senator Joseph Silk)</span></b><span style="color:red"> Exempts sale of a firearm beginning January 1, 2020 from the tax levied by the Oklahoma Sales Tax Code.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to Senate Finance Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Senate Bill 834 (Senator John Haste)</span></b><span style="color:red"> Creates a felony conviction for a person who buys or receives a stolen or embezzled firearm.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><u><span style="color:red">Update</span></u></b><u><span style="color:red">: Passed Senate Public Safety Committee 11-1 on Monday, February 18. Assigned to Senate Appropriations Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Senate Bill 866 (Senator Joseph Silk)</span></b><span style="color:red"> Modifies penalties for misdemeanor firearm violations. The bill requires a first conviction to be punishable by a fine of not more than
$250 and/or imprisonment of not more than 30 days. It requires second and subsequent convictions to be punishable of a fine not more than $500 and/or imprisonment of not more than 90 days.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to Senate Public Safety Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Senate Bill 894 (Senator Nathan Dahm)</span></b><span style="color:red"> Prohibits the state or any state government entity from creating any order, policy, ordinance or regulation touching in any way firearm
and ammunition components.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to Senate Public Safety Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 897 (Senator Nathan Dahm)</b> Requires the state to prove without reasonable doubt immunity is not applicable in order to criminally prosecute a person who claims to have used defensive deadly force.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Passed Senate Judiciary Committee 8-4 on Tuesday, February 26.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 959 (Senator Nathan Dahm) </b>Makes it illegal for a person under the influence of marijuana to carry or use shotguns, rifles or pistols unless they have medical marijuana license.<b><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b> <u>Update:</u></b><u> Passed Senate Public Safety Committee 11-0 on Monday, February 25.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Senate Joint Resolution 16 (Senator David Bullard and Representative Kevin West)</span></b><span style="color:red"> Proposes a vote of the people on a constitutional amendment that would prevent infringement of
the right of citizens to keep and bear arms. The amendment would not prevent the Legislature from prohibiting possession of firearms by a convicted felon, a person adjudicated as mentally incompetent or an individual involuntarily committed in any mental institution.
The amount amendment would prohibit the imposition of registration or special taxation upon the keeping of arms or ammunition.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to Senate Rules Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 1001 (Representative Jim Olsen) R</b>emoves the prohibition on felons riding in a vehicle where a firearm is present.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to House Public Safety Committee. Passed House Public Safety Committee 11-0 on Thursday, February 7.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 1002 (Representative Jim Olsen) </b>Reduces penalty for unlawfully carrying firearm.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Passed House Judiciary Committee 13-4 on Tuesday, February 19.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 1111 (Representative Kevin West)</b> Prohibits a person from carrying or possessing a firearm in any establishment where beer or alcoholic beverages, as defined by statute, are consumed. It exempts an owner or, proprietor
or employee of the establishment having a firearm, provided, the employee has permission from the owner or proprietor of the establishment.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><b><u>Update:</u></b><u> Passed House Public Safety Committee 11-0 on Thursday, February 14.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 1142 (Representative Tammy Townley) </b>Removes the "open and unconcealed" language from the statute concerning the conditions under which firearms may be carried.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update:</u></b><u> Passed House Wildlife Committee 9-2 on Wednesday, February 13.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">House Bill 1197 (Representative Tom Gann)
</span></b><span style="color:red">Adds zoos, botanical gardens, bus stations, bus terminals, bus stops, any vehicle operated by a transportation service for public use, and any property held by a public trust having a governmental entity as a beneficiary to
the allowed open carry location list.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><b><u><span style="color:red">Update</span></u></b><u><span style="color:red">: Assigned to House Judiciary Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 1214 (Representative Carl Newton)</b> Clarifies language detailing legal residency requirement for an Oklahoma handgun license.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Passed House Judiciary Committee 17-0 on Tuesday, February 26.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">House Bill 1258 (Representative Kyle Hilbert)</span></b><span style="color:red"> Allows any person issued an armed private investigator license or armed security guard license to carry a concealed or unconcealed
firearm when on and off duty, provided the person is in possession of a valid driver’s license and either a valid armed private investigator license or valid armed security guard license.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><b><u><span style="color:red">Update</span></u></b><u><span style="color:red">: Assigned to House Public Safety Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 2010 (Representative Garry Mize) </b>Prohibits the state or any state government entity from creating any order, policy, ordinance or regulation touching in any way firearm and ammunition components.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to House Judiciary Committee. Re-assigned to House Rules Committee. Passed House Rules Committee with committee substitute 7-0 on Monday, February 25. Passed off House floor 94-0
on Wednesday, February 27.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">House Bill 2335 (Representative Sean Roberts)</span></b><span style="color:red"> Prohibits expenditure of public monies for publicity or propaganda opposing Second Amendment Rights.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><b><u><span style="color:red">Update</span></u></b><u><span style="color:red">: Assigned to House Judiciary Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 2336 (Representative Sean Roberts)</b> Allows a board of education of a school district to adopt a policy authorizing persons possessing a valid handgun license to carry a handgun onto school property, provided the individual
possess a valid armed security guard license and holds a valid reserve peace officer certification.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Passed House Judiciary Committee 14-2 on Tuesday, February 19.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">House Bill 2376 (Representative Chris Kannady)
</span></b><span style="color:red">Requires training for armed security guards to include how to prepare and respond to an active shooter crises.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><b><u><span style="color:red">Update</span></u></b><u><span style="color:red">: Assigned to House Rules Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">House Bill 2457 (Representative Jason Dunnington and Representative Melissa Provenzano)</span></b><span style="color:red"> Creates the Oklahoma Extreme Risk Protective Order Act, setting a process for someone
to seek a firearms restraining order with the petitioner filing an affidavit or verified pleading alleging the respondent poses an immediate and present danger of causing personal injury to themselves or another by having custody of a controlled firearm or
firearms. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><u><span style="color:red">Update</span></u></b><u><span style="color:red">: Assigned to House Judiciary Committee. Re-assigned to House Rules Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 2597 (Representative Denise Crosswhite Hader, Representative Garry Mize, Representative Jay Steagall, Representative Jim Olsen, Representative Jon Echols, Representative Kevin McDugle, Representative Kevin West, Representative
Sean Roberts, Representative Tammy Townley, and Representative Tom Gann) </b>Makes Oklahoma a constitutional carry state. The bill permits a person at least 21 years of age or older, or 18 years of age but not yet 21 and a member or veteran of the United States
Armed Forces, Reserves or National Guard or was discharged under honorable conditions, and who is otherwise not disqualified from the possession or purchase of a firearm under state or federal law and is not carrying the firearm in furtherance of a crime to
carry a firearm, concealed or unconcealed, loaded or unloaded.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to House Public Safety Committee. Amended in Committee. Passed House Public Safety Committee 9-2 on Thursday, February 7. Senator Kim David added as principal Senate author and
Senator Nathan Dahm added as co-author. Amended on House Floor to allow for Higher Education campus exemptions. Passed House Floor 70-30 on Wednesday, February 13. Passed Senate Appropriations 17-4 on Wednesday, February 20. Passed off the House Floor 40-6
on Wednesday, February 27. Signed by Governor Stitt on Wednesday, February 27. <o:p>
</o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u> <o:p></o:p></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Scholarships<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Senate Bill 360 (Senator Julie Daniels)
</span></b><span style="color:red">Makes students who have at least one parent who is incarcerated eligible for the Lindsey Nicole Henry Scholarships for Students with Disabilities Program. It requires a parent or legal guardian who requests a Lindsey Nicole
Henry Scholarship for a public school student who has at least one parent who is incarcerated to provide the State Board of Education documentation verifying a parent is incarcerated in the custody of the Department of Corrections, another state's prison system
or the Federal Bureau of Prisons including, but not limited to, the active Department of Corrections inmate number.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red"> <u>Update</u></span></b><u><span style="color:red">: Laid over in Senate Education Committee on Tuesday, February 19. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Senate Bill 424 (Sen Stephanie Bice)
</span></b><span style="color:red">Requires a court to waive outstanding fines, court costs and fees if the offender has secured admission to, is enrolled in and is actively pursuing completion in a program of study in an institution which is a member of the
Oklahoma State System of Higher Education or technology center school or a workforce training program intended to expand further employment opportunities. It requires the court to waive the fines, court costs and fees based on the equivalent value of the potential
gross income of the offender as established by the minimum wage rate of the state upon the offender's completion of each 40-hour work week during the length of the program.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><u><span style="color:red">Update:
</span></u></b><u><span style="color:red">Assigned to Senate Judiciary Committee then to Senate Appropriations Committee. Dormant.
<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><u><o:p><span style="text-decoration:none"> </span></o:p></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 1247 (Representative Mark McBride) </b>Adds the Oklahoma Tax Commission to the list of entities to which scholarship-granting organizations and educational improvement granting organizations are required to submit an audited
financial statement for the organization along with information detailing the benefits, successes or failures of the program. The bill also requires the commission to make publicly available on its website the financial statement and information submitted.
The bill requires a scholarship-granting organization to submit certain information annually to the Tax Commission in order to maintain registration.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Committee substitute added operative language. Passed House Appropriations and Budget Education Subcommittee 11-0 on Tuesday, February 12. Passed full House Appropriations and Budget Committee
29-0 on Wednesday, February 27. <b><o:p></o:p></b></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 1857 (Representative Andy Fugate) </b>Revises the household income limitations for the Oklahoma Equal Opportunity Education Scholarship to $60,000 per year from taxable and nontaxable sources.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Passed House Appropriations and Budget Education Subcommittee 11-0 on Tuesday, February 12. Referred to full House Appropriations and Budget Committee.
<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 1942 (Representative Judd Strom)</b> Requires the State Treasurer to transfer an amount from the Unclaimed Property Fund equal to the lesser of $30 million or 30 percent of the monies in the Unclaimed Property Fund which are
in excess of the amount determined by the State Treasurer to be required to the Oklahoma Post-Secondary Education and Training Expenses Revolving Fund for the purposes of providing assistance to persons in obtaining an associate degree from a community college
or other institution within The Oklahoma State System of Higher Education, or attending classes at a career-technology center or for the provision of scholarships in order to offset the costs of attending an institution within The Oklahoma State System of
Higher Education. It creates in the State Treasury a revolving fund for the State Department of Education to be designated the Oklahoma Post-Secondary Education and Training Expenses Revolving Fund. It provides for expenditures.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to House Appropriations and Budget Committee. Referred to full House Appropriations and Budget Committee.
<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 1974 (Representative Ross Ford)</b> Authorizes the court to defer payment of all outstanding fines, courts costs and fees in a criminal case for specified persons beginning Nov. 1, 2019. It authorizes a court to waive or reduce
all outstanding fines, court costs and fees owed by the person in every felony or misdemeanor case filed in a district court or criminal case filed in a municipal court in Oklahoma upon successful graduation or completion of training and course work required
for certification.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update:</u></b><u> Passed House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, February 26,<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 2292 (Representative Harold Wright) </b>Expands eligibility for individuals to attend law enforcement courses and training at technology center schools and higher education institutions.<b><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update:</u></b><u> Passed House Public Safety Committee 11-0 on Thursday, February. 14. Passed
</u> <u>off the House Floor 97-0 on Wednesday, February 20. <o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 2521 (Representative Tammy West) </b>Creates the Oklahoma Educator Loan Repayment Program. It requires the State Department of Education to administer the program. It requires the program, depending upon and limited to available
funding, to provide educational loan repayment assistance to Oklahoma certified teachers who agree to work in a school district located in the state designated as a comprehensive support and improvement (CSI) school or targeted support and improvement (TSI)
school.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Passed House Common Education Committee 17-0 on Tuesday, February 19.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Teachers Retirement System</span></u></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Senate Bill 352 (Senator Dewayne Pemberton)
</span></b><span style="color:red">Provides for an 8 percent increase in retirement benefits for certain retirees in the Uniform Retirement System for Justices and Judges, the Oklahoma Firefighters Pension and Retirement System, the Oklahoma Police Pension
and Retirement System, the Teachers' Retirement System of Oklahoma, the Oklahoma Public Employees Retirement System and the Oklahoma Law Enforcement Retirement System. It establishes certain offsets.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to Senate Retirement and Insurance Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Senate Bill 504 (Senator Michael Brooks</span></b><span style="color:red">) Authorizes any employee, other than an education employee, who retires pursuant to the provisions of the Oklahoma Public Employees Retirement
System or who has a vested benefit pursuant to the provisions of the Oklahoma Public Employees Retirement System, to continue in force the health and dental insurance benefits authorized by the provisions of the Oklahoma Employees Insurance and Benefits Act.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><b><u><span style="color:red">Update</span></u></b><u><span style="color:red">: Assigned to Senate Retirement and Insurance Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="color:red"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Senate Bill 676 (Senator John Montgomery)</span></b><span style="color:red"> Modifies apportionment to the Teacher's Retirement System Dedicated Revenue Revolving Fund.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to Senate Appropriations Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Senate Bill 697 (Senator Jason Smalley)
</span></b><span style="color:red">Requires a retired member of the Oklahoma Teachers' Retirement System who is employed by the State Department of Education for the first time on or after November 1, 2020, to have the option to remain a member of the Teachers'
Retirement System, subject to the limitations prescribed therein, or choose to participate in the Oklahoma Public Employees Retirement System as an active member.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><b><u><span style="color:red">Update</span></u></b><u><span style="color:red">: Assigned to Senate Retirement and Insurance Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 772 (Senator Adam Pugh)</b> Modifies and updates language related to the Teachers' Retirement System. The bill repeals language related to the minimum benefits for members who retire before Aug. 2, 1969.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Passed Senate Retirement and Insurance Committee 8-0 on Monday, February
</u> <u>11. Passed Senate Floor 48-0 on Monday, February 18.</u><b><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 844 (Senator Gary Stanislawski</b>) Increases the annual maximum contribution to 18.5 percent to a retirement fund established by the board of county commissioners.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Passed Senate Retirement and Insurance Committee 8-0 on Monday, February 25.
<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Senate Bill 850 (Senator Darrell Weaver)</span></b><span style="color:red"> Requires any person receiving benefits from the Teachers' Retirement System of Oklahoma as of June 30, 2020 to receive a 7 percent increase
in benefits.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to Senate Retirement and Insurance Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Senate Bill 852 (Senator Kim David)</span></b><span style="color:red"> Requires a 7 percent increase in benefits beginning July 1, 2020 for any person receiving benefits from the Oklahoma Public Employees Retirement
System.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to Senate Retirement and Insurance Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Senate Bill 889 (Senator John Montgomery)</b> Increases the amount paid to beneficiaries of the Oklahoma Public Employees Retirement System to $50.00 per month on Jan. 1, 2021.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Passed Senate Retirement and Insurance Committee 6-2 on Monday, February
</u> <u>11.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Senate Bill 941 (Senator Dewayne Pemberton, Senator Brenda Stanley, and Representative Avery Frix)</span></b><span style="color:red"> Requires public retirement systems to make a one-time distribution to members
who have been retired for more than five years as of Oct. 1, 2019, of either the lesser of 2 percent or $1,000 if the funded ratio of the public retirement system would not be less than 60 percent.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"> <b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Assigned to Senate Retirement and Insurance Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 1090 (Representative Mike Osburn) </b>Allows the Teachers' Retirement System of Oklahoma to purchase service credits.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Laid over in House Banking Financial Services and Pensions Committee on Wednesday, February 13. Passed House Banking, Financial Services and Pensions Committee 10-0 on Wednesday, February
20.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">House Bill 1307 (Representative Matt Meredith)
</span></b><span style="color:red">Requires a 2 percent cost-of-living adjustment for people receiving benefits from the Oklahoma Firefighters Pension and Retirement System, the Oklahoma Police Pension and Retirement System, the Uniform Retirement System for
Justices and Judges, the Oklahoma law Enforcement Retirement System, the Teachers' Retirement System of Oklahoma and the Oklahoma Public Employees Retirement System.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><u><span style="color:red">Update</span></u></b><u><span style="color:red">: Assigned to House Banking Financial Services and Pensions Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">House Bill 1358 (Representative David Smith)</span></b><span style="color:red"> Requires a 4 percent cost-of-living adjustment for the Oklahoma Police Pension and Retirement System as well as the Oklahoma Public
Employees Retirement System. OTRS is not included<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><u><span style="color:red">Update</span></u></b><u><span style="color:red">: Assigned to House Banking Financial Services and Pensions Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 1426 (Representative Ben Loring) </b>Provides for membership to the Oklahoma Firefighters Pension and Retirement System and the Oklahoma Police Pension and Retirement System by specified full-time firefighters and law enforcement
officers employed by federally recognized Native American tribes.<b><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><u>Update</u></b><u>: Passed House Banking, Financial Services and Pensions Committee 11-0 on Wednesday, February 27.
</u><b><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">House Bill 2396 (Representative Chris Kannady)</span></b><span style="color:red"> Includes nonfiscal agreement allowing members of the Oklahoma Public Employees Retirement System to purchase service credit at
actuarial costs in the Oklahoma Pension Legislation Actuarial Analysis Act. The act allows prior military service to be considered in a public employee retirement system.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><b><u><span style="color:red">Update</span></u></b><u><span style="color:red">: Assigned to House Rules Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red"> </span></b><span style="color:red"><br>
<b>House Bill 2398 (Representative Chris Kannady) </b>Gives an 8 percent increase in public employee retirement benefits on July 1, 2019.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><b><u><span style="color:red">Update</span></u></b><u><span style="color:red">: Assigned to House Rules Committee. Dormant.<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Joint Committee on Appropriations and Budget (JCAB)<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p><span style="text-decoration:none"> </span></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>House Bill 2738 (Representative Kevin Wallace, Representative Kyle Hilbert Senator Dave Rader, and Senator Roger Thompson)</b> Repeals the statute creating the State Accrediting Agency. This agency was scheduled for sunset as of July
1, 2018, and is in the one year wind down period. HB 2738 would end the agency immediately. The duties of the agency and federal funding for the agency, according to federal law, are assignable by the Governor. The agency has an FY-19 budget of approximately
$570,620. Upon reassignment of the agencies duties and funding, presumably to another state agency, the receiving agency should receive federal funding adequate to support the additional duties.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><u>Update:</u></b><u> Passed out of House and Senate JCAB on Wednesday, February 20. Passed off the House floor 94-0 on Thursday, February 21.<b><o:p></o:p></b></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Appropriations: </span></b><span style="color:red">HB2684, HB2685, HB2686, HB2687, HB2688, HB2689, HB2690, HB2691, HB2692, HB2693, HB2694, HB2695, HB2696, HB2697, HB2698, HB2699, HB2700, HB2701, HB2702, HB2703,
HB2704, HB2705, HB2706, HB2707, HB2708, HB2709, HB2710, HB2711, HB2712, HB2713, HB2714, HB2715, HB2716, HB2717, HB2718, HB2719, HB2720, HB2721, HB2722, HB2723, HB2724, HB2725, HB2726, HB2727, HB2728, HB2729, HB2730, HB2731, HB2732, HB2733<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Revenue: </span></b><span style="color:red">HB1016,<b>
</b>HB1017, HB1238, HB1239, HB1363, HB1371, HB2080, HB2102, HB2125, HB2162, HB2163, HB2164, HB2165, HB2682, HB2501, HB2503, HB2504, HB2551, HB2559, HB2565, HB2573, HB2574<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Education:</span></b><span style="color:red"> HB1021, HB1049, HB1086, HB1139, HB1187, HB1195, HB1227, HB1256, HB1267, HB1324, HB1331, HB1362, HB1779, HB1782, HB1783, HB1906, HB1907, HB1908, HB1958, HB1980, HB1981,
HB2003, HB2004, HB2005, HB2006, HB2007, HB2063, HB2069, HB2070, HB2124, HB2181, HB2198, HB2199, HB2204, HB2243, HB2244, HB2247, HB2319, HB2322, HB2342, HB2447, HB2526, HB2527, HB2540, HB2633, HB2585<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Government</span></b><span style="color:red">: HB1794, HB1795, HB1796, HB1797, HB1798, HB1799, HB1800, HB1801, HB1802, HB1803, HB1922, HB2034, HB2122, HB2127, HB2283, HB2617, HB2620, HB2567<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Healthcare</span></b><span style="color:red">: HB1087, HB1314, HB1325, HB1327, HB1329, HB1333, HB1336, HB1337, HB1338, HB1339, HB1340, HB1344, HB1345, HB1869, HB2541, HB2542, HB2543, HB2544, HB2552, HB2654, HB2656<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Economic Development:</span></b><span style="color:red"> HB1080, HB1081, HB1350, HB1351, HB1125<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Marijuana/Industrial Hemp: </span>
</b><span style="color:red">HB1122, HB1172, HB1174, HB2054, HB2055, HB2056, HB2057, HB2058, HB2059, HB2085, HB2611, HB2615, HB2627<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red">Public Safety/Campus Safety/Weapons</span></b><span style="color:red">: HB2266, HB2678, HB2546<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Thank you.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">Glen D. Johnson</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Chancellor<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">655 Research Parkway, Suite 200<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73104<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">405.225.9122 <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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