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<div style="margin-bottom:8pt;">Following is the weekly legislative update. You will find the current status of the financial aid bills under the “Scholarships” section. Two bills are no longer active for the 2021 session – HB 2399 (OKPromise; allowing students
with deceased parents to enroll in 11<font size="1"><span style="font-size:7.3pt;"><sup>th</sup></span></font> or 12<font size="1"><span style="font-size:7.3pt;"><sup>th</sup></span></font> grade) and HB 1739 (OKPromise; allowing certain unaccompanied minors
participating in a DHS pilot program to enroll in OKPromise).</div>
<div style="margin-bottom:8pt;">While the general deadline for committee action was yesterday, April 8, only the House Appropriations and Budget Committee has until next Friday, April 16, to finish hearing bills in committee. SB 237, one of the two bills (which
are identical) making changes to the OTAG program passed the House A&B Subcommittee on Education and is now pending action in the full House A&B Committee.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom:8pt;">Also, there is one other bill in the “Higher Education” section of the update related to the Oklahoma College Savings Plan (OCSP). HB 1962 specifies that the definition of “qualified higher education expenses” authorized for
payment from the OCSP will conform with section 529 of the Internal Revenue Code. This change will incorporate recent federal additions to qualified expenses for 529 plans such as apprenticeship expenses and up to $10,000 for repayment of student loans.</div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>From: </b> <a name="x_from"></a>Chancellor Glen D. Johnson</span></font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>Date: </b> <a name="x_datea"></a>Friday, April 9, 2021</span></font></div>
<div style="text-indent:-36pt;padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>Subject:</b> <a name="x_re"></a>Legislative Update – April 9, 2021 </span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;">The update below reflects the major legislation concerning Higher Education. If you have any questions, please contact LeeAnna McNally, Vice Chancellor for Governmental Relations, at <a href="mailto:lmcnally@osrhe.edu"><font color="#0563C1"><u>lmcnally@osrhe.edu</u></font></a>
or (405) 301-0332.</span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>Legislative Report </b></span></font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>April 9, 2021</b></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>House Bill 1090 (Representative Gerrid Kendrix and Senator Brent Howard)</b> Allows the State Auditor and Inspector General to perform audits and inspections of government entities
without authorization from the Governor, the Chief Executive Officer of a government entity, or a joint or concurrent resolution of the Legislature.</span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Assigned to House Rules Committee. Reassigned to House General Government Committee. Passed House General Government Committee 7-0 on Wednesday, February
17. Passed off the House Floor 91-0 on Monday, March 1. Engrossed to Senate. Passed Senate Finance Committee 10-1 on Tuesday, March 23.</u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>House Bill 1146 (Representative Mike Osburn and Senator Greg Treat) </b>Places all state employee positions under the administration of the Human Capital Management Division of the
Office of Management and Enterprise Services effective January 1, 2022, except those employed by the Governor, Lt. Governor, Speaker of the House, or President Pro Tempore of the Senate, as well as elected officials, political appointees, and up to 5 percent
of an agency's executive management.</span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed House Rules Committee 9-0 on Tuesday, February 23. Amended by Floor Substitute. Passed off the House floor 93-0 on Tuesday, March 9. Passed
Senate Appropriations Committee 21-0 on Wednesday, March 31. </u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>House Bill 1602 (Representative Collin Walke and Senator John Michael Montgomery)</b> The bill entitles a consumer to request that a business that collects the consumer's personal information
disclose to the consumer the categories and specific items of personal information the business has collected. It establishes a requirement for the consumer to request the information. It establishes procedures for the business to disclose the information.</span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed House Technology Committee 6-0 on Wednesday, February 10. Passed off the House Floor 85-11 on Thursday, March 4. Engrossed to Senate. Assigned
to Senate Judiciary Committee. Dormant pursuant to the rules.</u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>House Bill 1875 (Representative Tammy West and Senator Brenda Stanley)</b> Permits each educational institution to choose to designate specific information which will be classified
as directory information for students attending the educational institution.</span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed House General Government Committee 8-0 on Wednesday, February 10. Passed off the House Floor 92-0 on Monday, March 1. Engrossed to Senate.
Passed Senate Judiciary Committee 9-0 on Tuesday, March 23. Emergency added.</u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>House Bill 1986 (Representative Judd Strom and Senator Bill Coleman) </b>Requires any state agency that owns, operates or leases land in the state that is utilized for livestock grazing
to enclose the area with a fence or another suitable means for the portion that contains livestock, as well as maintaining the enclosure. The bill allows the state agency to enter into a labor cost-sharing contract with adjacent landowner provided the landowner
is not otherwise responsible for the cost of the enclosure or its maintenance.</span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed House Agriculture and Rural Development Committee 9-0 on Tuesday, February 16. Passed off the House Floor 92-4 on Tuesday, March 9. Engrossed
to Senate. Dual Assigned to Senate Agriculture and Wildlife Committee and Senate Appropriations Committee.</u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>House Bill 2085 (Speaker Charles McCall and Senator David Bullard) </b>Requires the Office of Management and Enterprise Services to display the national motto of the United States in
a prominently visible location in all state buildings. The bill authorizes the Oklahoma Attorney General to prepare and present a legal defense of the display.</span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed House States’ Rights Committee 5-1 on Wednesday, February 10. Passed off the House Floor 81-19 on Monday, March 1. Engrossed to Senate. Passed
Senate General Government Committee 6-2 on Thursday, March 25. </u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>House Bill 2088 (Speaker Charles McCall and Senator Roger Thompson) </b>Exempts the legislature and judicial branches of state government from any and all fees or costs for services
rendered by state agencies. </span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed House Rules Committee 9-0 on Tuesday, February 16. Passed off the House floor 94-0 on Tuesday, March 9. Engrossed to Senate. Passed Senate
Appropriations Committee 19-0 on Wednesday, April 7.</u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>House Bill 2180 (Representative Ronny Johns and Senator Greg McCortney)</b> Removes requirements for making payroll deductions for certain insurance premiums with a minimum participation
of 500 state employees.</span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Assigned to House Rules Committee. Reassigned to House Insurance Committee. Passed House Insurance Committee 7-0 on Wednesday, February 24. Passed
off the House Floor 82-12 on Tuesday, March 2. Engrossed to Senate. Passed Senate Finance Committee 12-0 on Tuesday, April 6.</u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>House Bill 2185 (Representative Ronny Johns and Greg McCortney)</b> Modifies the requirements of publications on contracts awarded by state agencies to include the address of the company
and the reason to be awarded the contract. Deletes explanations on the out of state ownership percentage of contracted companies. </span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Assigned to House Rules Committee. Reassigned to House Government Modernization and Efficiency Committee. Passed Government Modernization and Efficiency
Committee 9-0 on Tuesday, February 23. Passed off the House Floor 88-3 on Tuesday, March 2. Engrossed to Senate. Assigned to Senate General Government Committee. Dormant pursuant to the rules.</u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>House Bill 2294 (Representative Dustin Roberts and Senator John Michael Montgomery)</b> Deletes the ability for employees to accumulate more than the maximum annual leave. </span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed House General Government Committee 8-0 on Wednesday, February 10. Passed off the House Floor 98-0 on Monday, March 8. Engrossed to Senate.
Dual Assigned to Senate General Government Committee and Senate Appropriations Committee.</u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>House Bill 2350 (Representative Jeff Boatman and Senator James Leewright) </b>Creates a task force with the goal of creating a single repository of data for state agencies that currently
have multiple data streams with redundancies. A goal of the task force would be to create a five-year digital infrastructure plan.</span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed House Rules Committee 10-0 on Tuesday, February 23. Passed off House Floor 85-10 on Wednesday, March 10. Engrossed to Senate. Dual Assigned
to Senate General Government Committee and Senate Appropriations Committee. </u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>Senate Bill 41 (Senator Greg McCortney and Representative Ronny Johns)</b> Modifies the requirements for state employee payroll deductions for private insurance organizations and service
companies that provide legal services. It removes the requirement that the organizations and service companies that provide legal services be regulated by the State Insurance Commissioner and have a minimum participation of 500 state employees.</span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed Senate Retirement and Insurance Committee 9-0 on Thursday, February18. Title Restored. Passed off the Senate Floor 44-0 on Thursday, March
4. Engrossed to House. Passed House Banking, Financial Services and Pensions Committee 5-1 on Monday, March 29.</u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>Senate Bill 63 (Senator John Michael Montgomery and Representative Avery Frix)</b> Removes language related to the State Government Reduction-in-Force and Severance Benefits Act that
requires an employee to repay all severance benefits on a proportional basis if an affected employee is reemployed by the agency from which separated as a result of a reduction-in-force</span></font></div>
<div style="margin-bottom:5pt;padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed Senate General Government Committee 9-0 on Thursday, February 11. Passed off the Senate Floor 31-15 on Tuesday, March 2.
Engrossed to House. Passed House Government Modernization and Efficiency Committee 7-1 on Tuesday, March 30.</u></span></font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>Senate Bill 282 (Senator Frank Simpson and Representative Tommy Hardin)</b> Amends Section 840-2.20 of the Oklahoma Personnel Act to allow for a temporary increase in the accumulation
limits for annual leave following an emergency declaration period, which shall carryover to the end of the fiscal year following the year in which the emergency declaration ended. increase and carryover of annual leave time</span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed Senate General Government Committee 9-0 on Thursday, February 4. Passed Senate Appropriations Committee 19-0 on Thursday, February 18. Passed
off the Senate Floor 42-1 on Tuesday, March 9. Engrossed to Senate. Passed House Appropriations and Budget General Government Subcommittee on Monday, March 29. Passed Appropriations and Budget Committee 32-0 on Wednesday, March 7. </u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>Senate Bill 299 (Senator Micheal Bergstrom and Representative Mark Lepak)</b> Allows for cooperative “piggybacking” purchase agreements between state agencies including on public construction
contracts. </span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed Senate General Government Committee 7-2 on Thursday, February 25. Passed off the Senate Floor 36-8 on Thursday, March 3. Engrossed to House.
Title Stricken. Passed House General Government Committee 9-2 on Thursday, April 8.</u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>Senate Bill 333 (Senator Frank Simpson and Representative Tammy Townley) </b>Amends Section 840-2.15 of the Oklahoma Personnel Act to allow for a temporary increase in the accumulation
limits for compensatory time following an emergency declaration period, which shall carryover to the end of the fiscal year following the year in which the emergency declaration ended. increase and carryover of annual leave time.</span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Assigned to Senate Business, Commerce and Tourism Committee. Reassigned to House General Government Committee. Passed House General Government Committee
8-0 on Thursday, February 18. Passed off the Senate Floor 42-1 on Thursday, March 4. Engrossed to House. Assigned to House Appropriations and Budget General Government Subcommittee then to Appropriations and Budget Committee. Passed House General Government
Subcommittee 8-2 on Monday, March 29. Passed House Appropriations and Budget Committee 32-0 on Wednesday, April 7.</u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>Senate Bill 403 (Senator Brenda Stanley and Representative Robert Manger)</b> Makes it unlawful for any person, alone or in concert with others and without authorization, to willfully
disturb, interfere or disrupt business of any political subdivision, which includes publicly posted meetings, or any political subdivision.</span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Assigned to Senate Public Safety Committee. Amended to make the bill an Emergency. Passed Public Safety Committee with a vote of 11-0 on Monday, February
8. Passed off the Senate Floor 36-9 on Tuesday, March 2. Engrossed to House. Passed House Public Safety Committee 7-2 on Tuesday, March 30.</u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>Senate Bill 459 (Senator Lonnie Paxton and Representative Ty Burns)</b> Amends the Standards for Workplace Drug and Alcohol testing in light of medical marijuana.</span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed Senate Business, Commerce and Tourism Committee 10-3 on Thursday, February 18. Passed off the Senate Floor 45-0 on Tuesday, March 9. Engrossed
to House. Passed House Business and Commerce Committee 10-0 on Wednesday, April 7.</u></span></font></div>
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state entity. </span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Amended by Committee Substitute. Passed House General Government 6-2 on Wednesday, March 31. Emergency removed.</u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>Senate Bill 650 (Senator Kim David and Representative Jon Echols)</b> Provides a 2 percent increase to the amount of a participant’s benefit allowance from the amount provided in the
previous plan year. </span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed Senate Retirement and Insurance Committee 8-1 on Thursday, February 18. Passed Senate Appropriations Committee 18-0 on Wednesday, February
24. Passed off the Senate Floor 41-4 on Monday, March 8. Engrossed to House. Passed House Appropriations and Budget Committee 26-0 on Wednesday, March 24. Title Stricken.</u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>Senate Bill 794 (Senator James Leewright and Representative Kevin Wallace) </b>Requires that if the Oklahoma Employment Security Commission or its representative determines that an
individual has been overpaid unemployment benefits to provisions therein relating to administrative overpayment, the individual must be sent a notice of overpayment determination. It allows that if the individual disagrees with this determination, said individual
can file an appeal of the determination with the Appeal Tribunal within 10 days after the date of mailing.</span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Assigned to Senate Appropriations Committee and Senate Business, Commerce and Tourism Committee. Passed Business, Commerce and Tourism Committee 12-0
on Thursday, February 11. Passed off the Senate Floor 46-0 on Tuesday, March 9. Engrossed to House. Passed House Government Modernization and Efficiency Committee 8-1 on Tuesday, March 30. </u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>Senate Bill 895 (Senator Paul Rosino and Representative Chris Kannady)</b> Allows state agencies to choose to have required audits performed by a public accountant or certified public
accountant registered to do business with the state. </span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Assigned to Senate Finance Committee. Reassigned to House General Government Committee. Passed House General Government Committee 7-2 on Thursday,
February 18. Passed off the Senate Floor 36-9 on Tuesday, March 9. Engrossed to House. Assigned to House Appropriations and Budget Committee. </u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>Senate Bill 924 (Senator Greg Treat and Representative Kyle Hilbert)</b> Creates a state data definition and gives OMES the authority to determine when state data is allowed to be shared
between agencies or with federal entities if a request to share is initially rejected.</span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed Senate General Government Committee 6-0 on Thursday, February 18. Passed off the Senate Floor 46-1 on Wednesday, March 10. Engrossed to House.
Passed House Technology Committee 5-0 on Wednesday, March 31. </u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>Senate Bill 984 (Senator Kim David and Representative Terry O’Donnell)</b> Prohibits an agency or official of the executive branch from entering into a contingency fee contract that
provides for the private attorney or firm to receive an aggregate contingency fee that exceeds amounts specified therein. It prohibits the total fee payable to all retained private attorneys in any contingency fee contract from exceeding $50 million exclusive
of any costs and expenses provided by the contract and actually incurred by the retained private attorneys, regardless of the number of actions or proceedings or the number of retained private attorneys involved in the matter.</span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed Senate Judiciary Committee 7-2 on Tuesday, February 23. Passed off the Senate Floor 38-6 on Tuesday, March 9. Engrossed to House. Assigned
to House Rules Committee. Laid Over. Dormant pursuant to the rules.</u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>Senate Concurrent Resolution 2 (Senator Rob Standridge) </b>Requires the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education to submit a report to the Legislature and to make the report available
on its website by December 31, 2021, that includes a list of all persons employed in a faculty or teaching position including their position rank at their respective institutions within the Oklahoma State System of Higher Education and their compensation during
the 2020-2021 academic year; a list of the courses taught and the hours taught by persons employed in a faculty or teaching position at institutions within the Oklahoma State System of Higher Education during the 2020-2021 academic year; the tenure policy of
each institution within the Oklahoma State System of Higher Education for the 2020-2021 academic year; and the number of faculty employed by each institution within the Oklahoma State System of Higher Education who had tenure during the 2020-2021 academic year.</span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"> <u>Update: Not assigned to committee. </u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>House Bill 1665 (Representative Kevin West and Senator Chuck Hall)</b> Creates a Federal Funds Holding Account within the General Revenue Fund to receive all funds required to be paid
to the State of Oklahoma. </span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed House Appropriations and Budget Committee 20-10 on Wednesday, February 24, Title Stricken. Passed off the House Floor 86-12 on Wednesday, March
3. Engrossed to Senate. Assigned to Senate Appropriations Committee.</u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>House Bill 1990 (Representative Trey Caldwell and Senator John Michael Montgomery)</b> Allows ad valorem reimbursement fund to be used to reimburse counties for loss of revenue due
to exemptions granted to veterans and their surviving spouses. </span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Assigned to House Appropriations and Budget Committee. Direct to Appropriations Committee. Passed House Appropriations Committee 28-0 Thursday, February
18. Passed off the House Floor 65-30 on Tuesday, March 2. Engrossed to Senate. Dual Assigned to Senate Finance Committee and Senate Appropriations Committee. Passed Senate Finance Committee 10-2 on Tuesday, March 30. Passed Senate Appropriations Committee 13-6
on Wednesday, April 7. </u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>House Bill 2086 (Speaker Charles McCall and Senator Zack Taylor) </b>Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Enterprise Services to ensure state agencies are charged no
more than the actual cost of the services provided by the Office.</span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed House Rules Committee 9-0 Tuesday, February 16. Passed off the House Floor 94-0 on Thursday, March 11. Engrossed to Senate. Assigned to Senate
Appropriations Committee.</u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>House Bill 2775 (Representative John Pfeiffer and Senator John Michael Montgomery)</b> Adds to the definition of “Cost Approach” in the ad valorem tax code to include physical deterioration,
functional or internal obsolescence, and economic or external obsolescence.</span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed House County and Municipal Government Committee 9-0 on Monday, February 22. Passed off the House Floor 92-0 on Wednesday, March 3. Engrossed
to Senate. Passed Senate Finance Committee 12-0 on Tuesday, April 6.</u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>House Bill 2776 (Representative John Pfeiffer and Senator John Michael Montgomery)</b> Creates the Protecting Revenues for Oklahoma Teachers, Educators and Students Fund (PROTEST) which
shall consist of all ad valorem funds under protest received by the State Department of Education (SDE). The SDE may distribute this money to school districts which are affected by protested ad valorem taxes.</span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Amended by Committee Substitute. Passed House Rules Committee 7-2 on Thursday, February 25. Passed off the House Floor 90-0 on Wednesday, March 10.
Engrossed to Senate. Passed Education Subcommittee 6-0 on Wednesday, March 24. Title Stricken. Passed Senate Appropriations Committee 19-0 on Wednesday, April 7.</u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>House Bill 2777 (Representative John Pfeiffer and Senator John Michael Montgomery)</b> Requires County Assessors to use current market price determination to establish fair cash value
for real property and personal property owned by any wind power in the ad valorem tax code. </span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed House County and Municipal Government Committee 9-0 on Monday, February 22. </u><a name="x_x_x__Hlk66291018"></a>Title Stricken. Passed off
the House Floor 93-0 on Wednesday, March 10. Engrossed to Senate. Passed Senate Finance Committee 12-0 on Tuesday, April 6.</span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>House Bill 2780 (Representative John Pfeiffer and Senator Dave Rader)</b> Allows the Oklahoma Tax Commission to garnish accrued earnings of a delinquent taxpayer by contacting the taxpayer’s
employer.</span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed House Appropriations and Budget Committee 27-3 on Wednesday, February 24. Passed off the House Floor 78-18 on Monday, March 8. Engrossed to
Senate. Passed Senate Finance Committee 11-0 on Tuesday, March 23. Passed Senate Appropriations Committee 19-0 on Wednesday, March 24. Passed off the Senate floor 39-7 on Thursday, April 8.</u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>House Joint Resolution 1001 (Representative Andy Fugate and Senator John Michael Montgomery)</b> Proposes a vote of the people on a constitutional amendment that changes the way the
maximum Constitutional Reserve (Rainy Day) Fund balance amount would be computed. It would require the maximum balance allowed be based on a percentage of total state expenditures instead of using revenue estimates provided by the State Board of Equalization
for the annual appropriations process. It would provide that total expenditures include all appropriated monies and federal funds. It would exclude from total expenditures money from revolving funds which are used by state agencies, fees or similar charges
that were not derived from tax revenue, and money obtained by issuing state government bonds.</span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed House Rules Committee 9-0 Tuesday, February 16. Passed off the House Floor 93-0 on Thursday, March 11. Engrossed to Senate. Assigned to Senate
Appropriations Committee. </u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>Senate Bill 79 (Senator Roger Thompson and Representative Kevin West)</b> Exempts from sales tax the transfer of tangible personal property to or by nonprofit 501(c)(3) entities that
have entered into a joint operating agreement with the University Hospitals Trust.</span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Assigned to Senate Appropriations Committee. Amended to provide an effective date of July 1, 2022. Passed Senate Appropriations Committee as amended
20-0 on Thursday, February 18. Passed off the Senate Floor 44-1 on Tuesday, March 2. Engrossed to House. Passed House Appropriations and Budget Committee 28-0 on Wednesday, March 24. </u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>Senate Bill 181 (Senator Zack Taylor and Representative Brad Boles)</b> Permits more than one-half of ad valorem taxes to be paid by January 1 of each year.</span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed Senate Finance Committee 12-0 Tuesday, February 2. Passed off Senate Floor 46-0 on Tuesday, February 9. Engrossed to House. Passed House County
and Municipal Government Committee 9-0 on Monday, March 29. </u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>Senate Bill 383 (Senator Robert Standridge and Representative Kevin West)</b> Establishes that the owner or operator of a social media website who contracts with users in Oklahoma is
subject to a private right of action by a social media website user if the social media website purposely deletes or censors a social media website user’s political speech or religious speech or uses an algorithm to suppress political speech or religious speech.</span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed Senate Judiciary Committee 5-3 on Tuesday, February 23. Passed off the Senate Floor 34-12 on Thursday, March 11. Engrossed to House. Assigned
to House Technology Committee. Dormant pursuant to the rules. </u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>Senate Bill 498 (Senator Roger Thompson and Representative Scott Fetgatter) </b>Permits a facility engaged in cement manufacturing to have the payroll requirements of the five-year
ad valorem tax exemption waived for tax year 2021, which is based in part on the 2020 calendar year payroll reported to the Oklahoma Employment Security Commission and permits it to continue to receive the exemption for the five-year period only if all other
requirements of this section are met.</span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed Senate Finance Committee 12-0 on Tuesday, February 9. Referred to Full Appropriations Committee. Laid over. Passed Senate Appropriations Committee
18-0 on Wednesday, March 3. Passed off the Senate Floor 44-1 on Tuesday, March 9. Engrossed to House. Assigned to House Revenue and Taxation Subcommittee then House Appropriations and Budget Committee. </u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>Senate Bill 609 (Senator Chuck Hall and Representative Kyle Hilbert)</b> Extends the ad valorem tax exemption to manufacturing facilities, doubles the acquisition or expansion limit.
Adds definitions to manufacturing facilities.</span></font></div>
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<div style="margin-bottom:5pt;padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed Senate Finance Committee 11-0 on Tuesday, February 9. Passed Senate Appropriations Committee 19-0 on Thursday, February 18.
Passed off the Senate Floor 33-1 on Tuesday, March 2. Engrossed to House. Passed House Appropriations and Budget Committee 30-1 on Wednesday, April 7. </u></span></font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>Senate Bill 906 (Senator Casey Murdock and Representative Todd Russ)</b> Provides allowances for depreciation of value in ad valorem tax consideration. </span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed Senate Finance Committee 9-2 on Friday, February 19. Passed off the Senate Floor 44-0 on Tuesday, March 9. Engrossed to House. Assigned to
House Revenue and Taxation Subcommittee then to House Appropriations and Budget Committee.</u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>Senate Joint Resolution 14 (Senator Joe Newhouse)</b> Puts to a vote of the people increasing the cap on the Constitutional Reserve Fund from 15 percent to 30 percent. </span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Assigned to Senate Rules Committee.</u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>Senate Joint Resolution 16 (Senator Micheal Bergstrom</b>) Changes the way maximum balance allowed for the rainy-day fund from using the Board of Equalization estimates to a percentage
of a total of the state expenditures for the previous year including all state and federal funds. </span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Assigned to Senate Rules Committee.</u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="font-size:14pt;"><b><u>CareerTech</u></b></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>House Bill 1026 (Representative Rande Worthen and Senator John Michael Montgomery)</b> Allows CLEET to establish and certify additional law enforcement and criminal justice programs
at state-supported technology center schools in the State of Oklahoma operating under the State Board of Career and Technology Education for teaching students between 16 and 19 years of age.</span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed House Public Safety Committee 7-0 on Tuesday, February 23. Passed off the House Floor 97-0 on Monday, March 8.</u> <u>Engrossed to Senate.
Passed Senate Public Safety Committee 11-1 on Monday, April 5.</u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>House Bill 1027 (Representative Trish Ranson and Senator Brenda Stanley)</b> Requires de-escalation training for certified teachers, beginning in the 2022-2023 school year. </span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed House Common Education Committee 13-0 on Tuesday, February 16. Passed off the House Floor 81-11 on Tuesday, March 2. Engrossed to Senate. Assigned
to Senate Education Committee. Dormant pursuant to the rules.</u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>House Bill 1046 (Representative Dell Kerbs and Senator John Michael Montgomery)</b> Requires a copy or a hyperlink to a copy of the most recent audit of the financial statements of
a school district to be on the front page of the school district website for public inspection.</span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed House Common Education Committee 14-0 on Tuesday, February 23. Passed off the House Floor as amended 95-0 on Wednesday, March. 3 Engrossed
to Senate. Passed Senate Education Committee 7-3 on Tuesday, April 6. </u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>House Bill 1073 (Representative Tom Gann and Senator Nathan Dahm)</b> Extends the sunset date for the Oklahoma Partnership for School Readiness Board until July 1, 2024.</span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed House Administrative Rules Committee 10-0 on Wednesday, February 10. Passed off the House Floor 89-2 on Wednesday, March 3. Engrossed to Senate.
Passed Senate Education Committee 12-0 on Tuesday, March 23.</u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>House Bill 1103 (Representative Mark Vancuren and Senator John Haste)</b> Directs the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services and the State Education Department to
create a set of guidelines and provide directions to schools in order to survey every public school student in grades 6,8,10 and 12 with the Oklahoma Prevention Needs Assessment Survey every other year beginning in the 2022-2023 school year.</span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed House Common Education Committee 12-0 on Tuesday, February 16. Amended to remove private schools. Passed off the House Floor 78-19 on Tuesday,
March 9. Engrossed to Senate. Dual Assigned to Senate Education Committee and Senate Appropriations Committee. Passed Senate Education Committee 11-1 Tuesday, March 30. Title Stricken. Passed Senate Appropriations Committee 19-0 on Wednesday April, 7.</u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>House Bill 1104 (Representative Mark Vancuren and Senator John Michael Montgomery)</b> Requires information on a student's tribal affiliation to be included in student data collected
for the state.</span></font></div>
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<div style="margin-bottom:5pt;padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed House Common Education Committee on 12-0 Tuesday, February 16. Passed off the House Floor 94-0 on Monday, March 1. Engrossed
to Senate. Passed Senate Education Committee 11-1 on Tuesday, March 23.</u></span></font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>House Bill 1568 (Representative Jeff Boatman and Senator John Haste) </b>Creates Maria’s Law requiring collaboration with the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services
to adopt standards and approve age-appropriate curriculum for K-12 students as a part of normal health education curriculum.</span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed House Common Education Committee 14-0 on Tuesday, February 23. Passed off the House Floor 84-10 with Title Stricken on Wednesday, March 3.
Engrossed to Senate. Dual Assigned to Senate Education Committee and Senate Appropriations Committee. Passed Senate Education Committee 9-1 on Tuesday, April 6. Passed Senate Appropriations Committee 19-0 on Wednesday, April 7.</u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>House Bill 1569 (Representative Jacob Rosecrants and Senator Adam Pugh)</b> Creates the Oklahoma Play to Learn Act. States that the intention of the Legislature is to focus on the importance
of child-centered, play-based learning. </span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed House Common Education Committee 14-0 on Tuesday, February 9. Passed off the House Floor 76-16 on Tuesday, March 9. Engrossed to Senate. Passed
Senate Education Committee 10-2 on Tuesday, March 23.</u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>House Bill 1775 (Representative Sherrie Conley and Senator Jessica Garvin)</b> Amended by committee substitute to bar any employee of a state agency, teacher administrator, school district
or other employee from being required to engage in training orientation or therapy that presents any form of race or sex stereotyping or blame on the basis of sex.</span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Assigned to House Common Education Committee. Laid Over. Passed House Common Education Committee 14-0 on Thursday, February 25. Passed off the House
Floor 93-0 on Wednesday, March 3. Engrossed to Senate. Amended by Committee Substitute. Passed Senate Education Committee 7-4 on Tuesday, April 6. </u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>House Bill 1801 (Representative Nicole Miller and Senator Brenda Stanley)</b> Creates Riley’s rule requiring school districts to develop an emergency action plan for all school facilities
including athletic practice events or activities. </span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed House Higher Education and CareerTech Committee 9-0 on Monday, February 8. Amended to allow only Oklahoma residents. Passed off the House Floor
as amended 98-1 on Monday, March 8</u><a name="_Hlk68767949"></a>. Engrossed to Senate. Passed Senate Education Committee 11-0 on Thursday, April 8.</span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>House Bill 1882 (Representative Marilyn Stark and Senator Dave Rader) </b>Creates the "Out-of-Schooltime" task force to identify, evaluate and recommend a set of best practices for
children, youth and families to improve and increase the number of quality, affordable out-of-school programs in the state. The bill sets the membership of the committee.</span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed House Children, Youth and Family Services Committee as amended by Committee Substitute 5-0 on Tuesday, February 23. Passed off the House Floor
82-14 on Tuesday, March 9. Engrossed to Senate. Dual Assigned to Senate Education Committee and Senate Appropriations Committee. Passed Senate Education Committee 11-1 on Tuesday, March 30. Passed Senate Appropriations Committee 19-1 on Wednesday, March 31.</u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>House Bill 1963 (Representative Jadine Nollan and Senator Brenda Stanley)</b> If vacancies occur which result in a loss of majority members of the board of education of a school district
or technology center school district, the Governor shall appoint a member or members necessary to constitute a quorum to the board of education.</span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Assigned to House Elections and Ethics Committee. Laid Over. Passed House Elections and Ethics Committee 7-0 on Thursday, February 25. Passed off
the House Floor 80-16 on Tuesday, March 2. Engrossed to Senate. Passed Senate Rules Committee 9-1 on Wednesday, March 24.</u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>House Bill 1968 (Representative Jadine Nollan and Senator Brenda Stanley)</b> Deletes expenditure and program classification reporting requirements for certain gifted and talented programs.
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed House Appropriations and Budget Committee 13-0 on Monday, February 8. Referred to full House Appropriations Committee. Laid Over. Passed House
Appropriations Committee 30-0 on Wednesday, February 24. Passed off the Senate Floor 80-0 on Wednesday, March 3. Engrossed to Senate. Passed Senate Education Committee 12-0 on Tuesday, March 23.</u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>House Bill 2030 (Representative Terry O’Donnell and Senator Adam Pugh)</b> Adds passing the Naturalization test to high school graduation requirements. </span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed House Common Education Committee 11-3 on Tuesday, February 16. Passed off the House Floor 80-18 on Monday, March 8. Engrossed to Senate. Dual
Passed Senate Education Committee and Senate Appropriations Committee 14-6 on Wednesday, April 7. </u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>House Bill 2223 (Representative Randy Randleman and Senator Dewayne Pemberton)</b> Requires the Oklahoma State Department of Education to maintain a dyslexia information handbook. </span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed House Common Education Committee 14-0 on Tuesday, February 9. Passed off the House Floor 96-0 on Monday, March 8. Engrossed to Senate. Passed
Senate Education Committee 12-0 on Tuesday, March 23.</u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>House Bill 2381 (Representative Danny Sterling and Senator Frank Simpson)</b> Directs local school districts to conduct an annual fitness assessment. </span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed House Appropriations and Budget Committee 22-9 on Wednesday, February 25. Title Stricken. Passed off the House Floor 57-37 on Wednesday, March
3. Engrossed to Senate. Dual Assigned to Senate Education Committee and Senate Appropriations Committee. Passed Senate Education Committee 9-2 on Tuesday, April 6. Passed Senate Appropriations Committee 18-1 on Wednesday, April 7.</u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>House Bill 2388 (Representative John Talley and Senator Tom Dugger)</b> Asks school districts to provide age-appropriate instruction about social-emotional learning. </span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Assigned to House Rules Committee. Reassigned to House Common Education Committee. Passed House Common Education Committee 14-0 on Tuesday, February
23. Passed off the House Floor 70-22 on Wednesday, March 2. Engrossed to Senate. Assigned to Senate Education Committee. Dormant pursuant to the rules.</u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>House Bill 2396 (Representative Todd Russ and Senator Brenda Stanley)</b> Allows the Regents for Higher Education to adopt a policy regarding sex trafficking and exploitation prevention.
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed House Common Education Committee 14-0 on Tuesday, February 9. Passed off the House Floor 86-6 on Tuesday, March 2. Engrossed to Senate. Amended
by Committee Substitute. Passed Senate Education Committee 11-0 on Thursday, April 8.</u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>House Bill 2462 (Representative Dick Lowe and Senator Brent Howard)</b> Allows the State Department of Education to enter into contracts and agreements for the payment of food, lodging
and other expenses necessary to host or participate in conferences and training sessions.</span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed House General Government Committee 7-0 on Wednesday, February 17</u>. <u>Passed off the House Floor 86-5 on Monday, March 1. Engrossed to Senate</u>.
<u>Dual Assigned to Senate Education Committee and Senate Appropriations Committee. Passed Senate Education Committee 11-1 on Tuesday, March 23. Passed Senate Appropriations Committee 20-0 on Wednesday, March 24.</u> </span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>House Bill 2662 (Representative Dick Lowe and Senator Dave Rader)</b> Creates the Seizure Safe Schools Act requiring each local school district to have at least one school employee
at each school who has met certain seizure safe training requirements. </span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Assigned to House Common Education Committee. Amended to change from a Shall to a May. Passed House Common Education Committee 12-0 on Tuesday, February
16. Author change. Passed off the House Floor 95-0 on Wednesday, March 3. Engrossed to Senate. Dual Assigned to Senate Education Committee and Senate Appropriations Committee. Withdrawn from Appropriations Committee. Passed Senate Education Committee 11-0 on
Tuesday, April 6.</u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>House Bill 2727 (Representative Ajay Pittman and Senator David Bullard</b>) Requires subject to the availability of funds that there be a basic life skills education curriculum taught
in public schools.</span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed House Common Education Committee 14-0 on Tuesday, February 23. Passed off the House Floor 67-26 on Wednesday, March 10. Engrossed to Senate.
Dual Assigned to Senate Education Committee and Senate Appropriations Committee.</u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>House Bill 2749 (Representative Rhonda Baker and Senator Adam Pugh)</b> Requires schools that receive more than $2,500 from the Reading Proficiency Act to spend at least 10 percent
on professional development for Pre-k-5 grade teachers. </span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed House Common Education Committee 12-0 on Tuesday February 16. Passed off the House Floor 90-5 on Tuesday, March 2. Engrossed to Senate. Dual
Assigned to Senate Education Committee and Senate Appropriations Committee. Title Stricken. Passed Senate Education Committee 12-0 on Tuesday, March 30. Passed Senate Appropriations Committee 20-0 on Wednesday, April 7. </u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>House Joint Resolution 1026 (Representative Anthony Moore)</b> Puts to a vote of the people a constitutional amendment that removes debt limits for school districts. </span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Assigned to House Rules Committee.</u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>House Joint Resolution 1029 (Representative Monroe Nichols)</b> Puts to a vote of the people a constitutional amendment that authorizes a school district to raise an additional $5 million
levy on taxable property within the district if approved by the majority of district voters. </span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Assigned to House Rules Committee.</u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>House Joint Resolution 1033 (Representative Chad Caldwell)</b> Puts to a vote of the people a requirement that a school spends at least 60 percent of its annual budget on instructional
expenditures. </span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Assigned to House Rules Committee.</u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>Senate Bill 13 (Senator Brenda Stanley and Representative Rhonda Baker)</b> Requires a teacher whose certificate is suspended by the State Board of Education to be placed on suspension
while proceedings for revocation or other action are pending before the State Board of Education.</span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed Senate Education Committee 12-0 on Tuesday, February 23. Passed off the Senate Floor 46-0 on Monday, March 1. Engrossed to House.</u> <u>Passed
House Common Education Committee 13-0 on Tuesday, April 7. </u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>Senate Bill 21 (Senator Kay Floyd and Representative Marcus McEntire)</b> Makes it a requirement, rather than permissive, beginning with the 2021-2022 school year, that district school
boards provide schoolwide training to all students in grades seven through twelve and staff addressing suicide awareness and prevention.</span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed Senate Education Committee as amended by Committee Substitute 12-0 on Tuesday, February 9. Passed off the Senate Floor 45-0 on Tuesday, March
9. Engrossed to House. Passed House Common Education Committee 12-0 Tuesday, April 6. </u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>Senate Bill 54 (Senator John Michael Montgomery and Representative Daniel Pae</b>) Requires the State Department of Education to designate a school district site or charter school site
as a Purple Star School. The bill defines applicable terms. It establishes the requirements for a school district site or charter school to be designated as a Purple Star School. It requires the State Board of Education to promulgate necessary rules.</span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed Senate Veterans and Military Affairs Committee 10-0 on Thursday, February 11. Passed off the Senate Floor 46-0 on Tuesday, March 2. Engrossed
to House. Passed House Common Education Committee 14-0 on Tuesday, March 30. </u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>Senate Bill 66 (Senator John Haste and Representative Lonnie Sims)</b> Exempts any insurance policy sold to any school district from the surplus lines premium tax.</span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:31.5pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed Senate Retirement and Insurance Committee 9-0 on Monday, February 8. Passed off the Senate Floor 45-0 on Monday, March 1. Engrossed to House.
Passed House Insurance Committee 8-0 on Wednesday, March 31.</u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>Senate Bill 68 (Senator Frank Simpson and Representative Max Wolfley)</b> Requires a public school student to be considered in compliance with statutory residency provisions if he or
she is a student whose parent or legal guardian is transferred or is pending transfer to a military installation within the state while on active military duty pursuant to an official military order.</span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed Senate Education Committee 12-0 on Tuesday, February 2. Passed off the Senate Floor 46-0 on Thursday, March 4. Engrossed to House. Passed House
Common Education Committee 12-0 on Tuesday, March 30.</u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>Senate Bill 89 (Senator John Haste and Representative Rhonda Baker)</b> Creates the Health Education Act. The bill defines applicable terms. It requires health education to be taught
in public schools, including but not limited to physical health, mental health, social and emotional health and intellectual health.</span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed Senate Education Committee 11-1 on Tuesday, February 23. Passed off the Senate Floor 42-1 on Thursday, March 11. Engrossed to House. Passed
House Common Education Committee 14-0 on Tuesday, March 30. </u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>Senate Bill 128 (Senator Dave Rader and Representative Dick Lowe)</b> Creates the Seizure Safe Schools Act requiring at least one school employee at each school to meet certain training
requirements.</span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Assigned to Senate Education Committee. Title Stricken, Amended by Committee Substitute. Passed 12-0 on Tuesday, February 9. Passed off the Senate
Floor 47-0 on Wednesday, March 3. Engrossed to House. Passed House Common Education Committee 14-0 on Tuesday, March 30.</u> </span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>Senate Bill 252 (Senator Brenda Stanley and Representative Rhonda Baker)</b> Requires all public schools to begin teaching computer science courses in the 2024-2025 school year. </span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Assigned to Senate Education Committee. Title Stricken. Passed Senate Education Committee 12-0 on Tuesday, February 2. Passed off the Senate Floor
41-0 on Tuesday, March 9. Engrossed to House. Passed House Common Education Committee 13-0 on Tuesday, April 6. </u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>Senate Bill 419 (Senator J.J. Dossett and Representative John Waldron)</b> Removes the requirement to administer assessments in U.S. history under the statewide system of student assessments.</span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed Senate Education Committee 10-0 on Tuesday, February 23. Passed off the Senate Floor 43-2 on Tuesday, March 2. Engrossed to House. Passed House
Common Education Committee 10-4 on Tuesday, March 30. </u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>Senate Bill 503 (Senator Nathan Dahm and Representative Ryan Martinez</b>) Adds to required history curriculum, the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights,
substantive selections from the Federalist Papers, the Emancipation Proclamation, the Articles of Confederation, the Gettysburg Address and George Washington’s Farewell Address.</span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed Senate Education Committee 9-2 on Tuesday, February 23. Passed off the Senate Floor 39-7 on Wednesday, March 3. Engrossed to House. Passed
House Common Education Committee 11-2 on Tuesday, April 6. </u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>Senate Bill 619 (Senator David Bullard and Representative Kevin West)</b> Allows school districts to obtain liability insurance coverage to protect a student participating in an apprenticeship
internship or mentorship program.</span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Assigned to Senate Education Committee. Title Stricken Passed Senate Education Committee 12-0 on Tuesday, February 2. Passed Senate Appropriations
Committee 20-0 on Wednesday, February 24. Title Restored. Passed off the Senate Floor 47-0 on Thursday, March 4. Engrossed to House. Passed House Common Education Committee 14-0 on Tuesday, March 30.</u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>Senate Bill 634 (Senator Julie Daniels and Representative Terry O’Donnell</b>) Requires an authorization form that has the statement of understanding of the first amendment rights to
not be a part of a union for public education employees. Makes that form’s authorization a yearly requirement. </span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Assigned to Senate Education Committee. Reassigned to Senate Judiciary Committee. Passed Senate Judiciary 7-4 on Tuesday, February 23. Passed off
the Senate Floor 25-21 on Thursday, March 4. Emergency Passed 32-14 on Thursday, March 4. Engrossed to House. Passed House Rules Committee 9-2 on Thursday, April 8. </u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>Senate Bill 642 (Senator Adam Pugh and Representative Dustin Roberts)</b> Includes multi-aptitude battery assessments that measure developed abilities and help predict future academic
and occupational success in the military.</span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed Senate Education Committee 11-0 on Tuesday, February 23. Title Stricken. Passed off the Senate Floor 42-0 on Tuesday, March 9. Engrossed to
House.</u> <u>Passed House Common Education Committee 13-2 on Tuesday, April 6. </u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>Senate Bill 783 (Senator Adam Pugh and Representative Brad Boles)</b> Requires the Department of Education to publish a list of the capacity for a class in each grade level K-12. Strengthens
open transfer policies. Gives OEQA audit authority over transfer</span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed Senate Education Committee 9-3 on Tuesday, February 23. Amended by Committee Substitute. Passed off the Senate Floor 32-15 on Tuesday, March
2. Engrossed to House. Advanced to General Order. Passed off the House Floor 65-30 on Wednesday, March 31. Emergency passed 68-19. Sent to Governor. Signed by Governor Stitt Wednesday, March 31.</u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>Senate Bill 807 (Senator Chris Kidd and Representative Rhonda Baker)</b> Entitles support employees to pay for any time lost when a school district is closed because of an epidemic
or when an order for such a closing has been issued by a health officer authorized by law to issue the order.</span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed Senate Education Committee 10-1 on Tuesday, February 23. Passed off the Senate Floor 42-1 Tuesday, March 9. Engrossed to House. Passed House
Common Education Committee 14-0 on Tuesday, March 30. </u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>Senate Joint Resolution 3 (Senator Carri Hicks)</b> Proposes a vote of the people on a constitutional amendment that allows a member of the Legislature to be employed as a certified
teacher with a public school district in this state after he or she completes his or her term in office.</span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Assigned to Senate Rules Committee.</u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>Senate Joint Resolution 9 (Senator Mary Boren)</b> Puts to a vote of the people a constitutional amendment that changes the duty of the legislature when it comes to public education.
Removes the words “Wherein all the children of the State may be educated”. Instead requires the legislature to “make suitable provision for the support and maintenance of an efficient and equitable system of free public schools”.</span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Assigned to Senate Rules Committee.</u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>House Bill 2335 (Representative Jay Steagall and Senator Shane Jett)</b> Prohibits compulsory immunization through any state entity via direct or indirect means. </span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed House Public Health Committee 7-1 on Wednesday, February 10. Passed off the House floor 71-25 on Tuesday, March 9. Engrossed to Senate. Passed
Senate Health and Human Services Committee 6-5 on Monday, April 5.</u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>House Joint Resolution 1032 (Representative Chad Caldwell)</b> Puts to a vote of the people a constitutional amendment prohibiting a governmental entity from issuing any order or rule
that requires closure of any place of worship.</span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>Senate Bill 368 (Senator David Bullard and Representative Brian Hill)</b> Prohibits any governmental declaration of a religious institution as nonessential. Requires that religious
institutions be exempt from closure orders for the purpose of health or security that is greater than that imposed on any private entity. </span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed Senate Judiciary Committee 6-2 on Tuesday, February 9. Passed off the Senate Floor 37-9 on Thursday, March 11. Engrossed to House. Passed House
States Rights Committee 5-1 on Wednesday, March 31. </u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>Senate Bill 658 (Senator Nathan Dahm and Representative Kevin West)</b> Requires the State Department of Education to provide any notice or publication on immunization requirements
all information on exemptions to such requirements. Creates a metric for when mask mandates are allowed. Higher Education is excluded from the mask mandate portion. </span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Assigned to Senate Education Committee. Amended to pass Senate Education Committee 8-3 on Tuesday, February 9. Passed off the Senate Floor 35-10 on
Thursday, March 4. Emergency Passed 36-9 on Thursday, March 4. Engrossed to House. Assigned to House Common Education Committee. Withdrawn from Common Education Committee. Amended by Committee Substitute. Amended to allow the local health department to set
mask rules. Passed House Public Health Committee 9-1 on Wednesday, April, 7.</u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>House Joint Resolution 1036 (Representative Jon Echols)</b> Puts to a vote of the people a constitutional amendment allowing a school district to become indebted after a 3/5ths vote
to acquire or improve the school sites or equipment of a charter school. </span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>Senate Bill 69 (Senator Frank Simpson and Representative Max Wolfley)</b> Provides a student will be eligible to enroll in a statewide virtual charter school if the student's parent
or legal guardian is transferred or is pending transfer to a military installation within this state while on active military duty pursuant to an official military order.</span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Assigned to Senate Education Committee. Passed Senate Education Committee 12-0 on Tuesday, February 2. Passed off the Senate Floor 46-0 on Thursday,
March 4. Engrossed to House. Passed House Common Education Committee 12-0 on Tuesday, March 30. </u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>Senate Bill 222 (Senator Rob Standridge and Representative Daniel Pae)</b> Creates the Hope Scholarship Program to provide a scholarship to an eligible private school of choice for
students who have experienced bullying. </span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Assigned to Senate Education Committee. Amended by Committee Substitute. Passed Senate Education Committee 11-1 on Tuesday, February 23. Passed Senate
Appropriations Committee 20-0 on Monday, March 1. Passed off the Senate Floor 44-1 on Thursday, March 11. Engrossed to House. Passed House Common Education Committee 11-0 on Thursday, April 8.</u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>Senate Bill 239 (Senator Dewayne Pemberton and Representative Toni Hasenbeck) </b>Creates a process for the State Board of Education to hear appeals to the charter school sponsorship
process.</span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Assigned to Senate Education Committee. Passed Senate Education Committee 11-1 on Tuesday, February 2. Passed off the Senate Floor 30-16 on Wednesday,
February 10. Engrossed to House. Passed House Common Education Committee 11-3 on Tuesday, March 29.</u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="font-size:14pt;"><b><u>General Government</u></b></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>Senate Joint Resolution 1 (Senator Kay Floyd)</b> Proposes a vote of the people on a constitutional amendment that would prohibit members of the Legislature from being appointed or
elected to any office or commission during their term; receiving any appointment from the Governor, the Governor and Senate or the Legislature during the term; or being interested in any contract with the state or a political subdivision during the term. It
would not prohibit an employee of a school district, a technology center school district or the Oklahoma State System of Higher Education from continuing to serve during the term, or prohibit an appointment to a legislative committee or other legislative position.
It also would not prohibit a former member from returning to his or her profession or business. It would permit the Legislature to enact laws to implement these provisions.</span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>House Bill 1962 (Representative Jadine Nollan and Senator Marty Quinn)</b> Specifies the definition of “qualified higher education expenses” to fall in line with section 529 of the
Internal Revenue Code. </span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed House Higher Education and CareerTech Committee with a vote of 9-0 on Monday, February 8. Passed off the House Floor 95-0 on Tuesday, March
2. Engrossed to Senate. Passed Senate Education Committee 12-0 on Tuesday, March 30.</u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>House Bill 1965 (Representative Jadine Nolan and Senator Darrell Weaver)</b> Allows a board of county commissioners to determine the years of service required for full-time county employees
to qualify for a continuing education program and allows such programs to include courses offered by a college or university that is a member of the Oklahoma State System of Higher Education as well as any other in-state or out-of-state programs or courses
which are relevant to the employee's responsibilities as approved by the county commissioners.</span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed House County and Municipal Government Committee 9-0 on Monday, February 8. Passed off the House Floor as amended 95-0 on Monday, March 8. Engrossed
to Senate. Passed Senate General Government Committee 8-0 on Wednesday, March 31.</u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>House Bill 2046 (Speaker Charles McCall and Senator Frank Simpson)</b> Creates the Higher Education Institution Local Funding Act. The measure authorizes the board of regents of eligible
two-year colleges to adopt a resolution calling for the creation of a higher education funding district, for the purpose of providing additional sources of funding for the institution. If approved by the board of regents, the creation of the funding district
and its initial operational millage rate would go to a vote of the people within the established district boundary. Additional bonds may be included in the ballot measure calling for the creation of the district. The ballot measure would require 60 percent
approval to pass.</span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Amended by Committee Substitute. Passed House Rules Committee as amended 7-0 on Thursday, February 25. Passed off the House Floor 79-18 on Tuesday,
March 9. Engrossed to Senate. Dual Assigned to Senate Education Committee and Senate Appropriations Committee. Passed Senate Education Committee 9-3 on Tuesday, April 6. Passed Senate Appropriations Committee 19-0 on Wednesday, April 7.</u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>House Bill 2691 (Representative Toni Hasenbeck and Senator Micheal Bergstrom)</b> Requires the Commission for Educational Quality an Accountability to issue a report detailing factors
in the public education system that contribute to graduation rates, assessment scores and the state workforce. </span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed House Common Education Committee 14-0 on Tuesday, February 23. Passed off the House Floor 76-18 on Tuesday, March 9. Engrossed to Senate. Passed
Senate Education Committee 8-3 on Tuesday, April 6.</u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>House Bill 2750 (Representative Rhonda Baker and Senator Adam Pugh)</b> States the intent of the Legislature that in establishing minimum required score on AP exams for granting course
credit the Regents for Higher Education should not require an AP score above 3. </span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed House Higher Education and CareerTech Committee 9-0 on Monday, February 22. Amended to allow the granting of additional credit for higher than
3. Passed off the House Floor 94-0 on Wednesday, March 3. Engrossed to Senate. Passed Senate Education Committee 12-0 on Tuesday, March 30. </u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>House Bill 2874 (Representative Kevin Wallace and Senator Roger Thompson)</b> Adds the University Hospitals Trust to those exempt from sales tax. </span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed House Appropriations and Budget Committee 26-1 on Wednesday, February 10. Title Stricken. Passed off the House Floor 83-9 on Monday, February
22. Engrossed to Senate. Passed Senate Appropriations Committee 19-0 on Wednesday, April 7. </u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>House Bill 2926 (Speaker Charles McCall and Senator Adam Pugh) </b>Requires each institution of higher education to publish a salary report of common occupations and industries in which
students are employed upon graduation. </span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed House Rules Committee 7-0 on Tuesday, February 9. Passed off the House Floor 97-1 on Tuesday, March 9.</u><a name="_Hlk68767968"></a> Engrossed
to Senate. Passed Senate Education Committee 11-1 on Tuesday, March 30.</span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>Senate Bill 2 (Senator Micheal Bergstrom and Representative Toni Hasenbeck)</b> Amended by Committee Substitute to prohibit anyone of the male sex from playing on athletic teams designated
for females, women, or girls. It requires any student who is deprived of an athletic opportunity due to a violation of this rule, to have a cause of action for injunctive relief against the school. </span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed Senate Education Committee 11-1 on Tuesday, February 23. Passed off the Senate Floor 38-8 on Monday, March 1. Engrossed to House. Amended by
Committee Substitute. Passed House Common Education Committee 4-1 on Thursday, April 8. </u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>Senate Bill 70 (Senator Frank Simpson and Representative Tommy Hardin)</b> Increases the time period before the date of enrollment from five years to 10 years when a person was discharged
or released from active military service to qualify for in-state enrollment.</span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Education 4-0 on Wednesday, February 10. Referred to Full Appropriations Committee. Passed Senate Appropriations
Committee 19-0 on Thursday, February 18. Title Stricken. Passed off the Senate Floor 45-0 on Tuesday, March 9. Passed Senate Appropriations Budget Education Subcommittee 11-0 on Monday, March 29. Title Restored. Passed House Appropriations and Budget Committee
32-0 on Wednesday, April 7.</u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>Senate Bill 139 (Senator Roger Thompson and Representative Kyle Hilbert) </b>Adds the Senate Appropriations Committee Chair and the House Appropriations and Budget Committee Chair to
the list of recipients of the annual report submitted by Oklahoma State University Medical Authority.</span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Assigned to Senate Appropriations Committee. Laid Over. Passed Senate Appropriations Committee 20-0 on Wednesday February, 24. Passed off the Senate
Floor 45-0 on Tuesday, March 2. Engrossed to House. Assigned to House Appropriations and Budget Committee. Laid Over.</u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>Senate Bill 238 (Senator Dewayne Pemberton and Representative Kyle Hilbert</b>) Creates a task force to study the requirement for high school students to complete the FASFA. Designates
the makeup of this task force and the end date for a report. Requires the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education and the Senate to provide the staff and administrative support for the task force.</span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed Senate Education Committee 11-1 Tuesday, February 9. Passed off the Senate Floor 40-5 on Wednesday, March 3. Engrossed to House. Passed House
Higher Education and Career Tech Committee 10-0 on Monday, March 29. </u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>Senate Bill 261 (Senator John Michael Montgomery and Representative Melissa Provenzano)</b> Creates the Oklahoma Student Borrower’s Bill of Rights, requiring that student loan servicers
not employ any deceptive practices, maintain accurate reporting to consumer credit bureaus, and otherwise accurately inform borrowers of their rights and obligations in public and plain language. </span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed Senate Business, Commerce and Tourism Committee 11-2 on Thursday, February 11. Passed off the Senate Floor 45-0 on Tuesday, March 2. Engrossed
to House. Passed House Higher Education and Career Tech Committee 10-0 on Monday, March 29.</u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>Senate Bill 292 (Senator John Haste and Representative Jadine Nollan)</b> Creates a task force to study the concurrent enrollment needs of the State.</span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed Senate Education Committee 12-0 on Tuesday, February 23. Passed off the Senate Floor 46-1 on Wednesday, March 3. Engrossed to House. Passed
House Higher Education and Career Tech Committee 10-0 on Monday, March 29.</u></span></font></div>
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<div style="margin-bottom:12pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>Senate Bill 893 (Senator Adam Pugh and Representative Scott Fetgatter)</b> Allows the undergraduate and graduate programs of the same discipline of engineering
at an institution to be part of the qualified program if either program is ABET accredited.</span></font></div>
<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed Senate Finance Committee 11-0 on Tuesday, February 9. Passed off the Senate Floor 42-3 on Thursday, March 11. Engrossed to House. Assigned
to Finance- Revenue and Taxation Subcommittee then to Appropriations and Budget Committee. Passed House Finance-Revenue and Taxation Committee 8-0 on Monday, March 29.</u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>Senate Joint Resolution 15 (Senator Rob Standridge)</b> Puts to a vote of the people a prohibition for higher education from requiring students to enroll in a course that is not a core
requirement of their chosen curriculum, a course with no tuition or fee charged, or a course that is not directly relevant to a degree being pursued. </span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>House Bill 1006 (Representative Carol Bush and Senator Adam Pugh</b>) Creates the Transparency in Health Care Prices Act. The bill defines applicable terms. It requires healthcare providers
make available to the public, in a single document, either electronically or by posting conspicuously on the provider's website if one exists, the health care prices for at least the 20 most common health care services the healthcare provider provides.</span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed House Public Health Committee 8-0 on Wednesday, February 24. Passed off the House Floor 92-0 on Tuesday, March 2. Engrossed to Senate. Passed
Senate Health and Human Services Committee 11-0 on Monday, April 5. </u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>House Bill 2299 (Representative Dustin Roberts and Senator John Michael Montgomery)</b> Creates the Oklahoma Medical Education Protection Act which preserves the supplemental payment
programs payable to University Health Science Centers when entering into contractual arrangements with any entity for the management of Medicaid patients. </span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed House Rules Committee 8-0 on Tuesday, February 23. Passed off the House Floor 82-3 on Wednesday, March 10. Engrossed to Senate. Assigned to
Senate Appropriations Committee. </u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>House Joint Resolution 1041 (Representative Sean Roberts)</b> Puts to a vote of the people an amendment repealing Medicaid expansion.</span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>Senate Bill 4 (Senator Greg McCortney and Representative T.J. Marti)</b> Permits a pharmacist to substitute an interchangeable biological product for a prescribed biological product
only if the substituted product has been determined by FDA to be interchangeable with the prescribed biological product; the prescribing physician has permitted substitution; and the pharmacy informs the patient of the substitution.</span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed Senate Health and Human Services committee 10-0 Wednesday, February 3. Amended by Floor Substitute. Passed off the Senate Floor 44-0 on Wednesday,
March 10. Engrossed to House. Passed House Public Health Committee 10-0 on Wednesday, March 31.</u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>Senate Bill 100 (Senator Brenda Stanley and Representative Dean Davis)</b> Permits an applicant for a license to practice podiatric medicine to submit an electronic application online.
It requires an applicant legally reside in the United States, rather than be loyal to the US. The bill removes the requirement that the applicant be free from contagious or infectious disease.</span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed Senate Health and Human Services Committee 8-3 on Thursday, February 25. Passed off the Senate Floor 46-0 on Wednesday, March 10. Engrossed
to House. Passed House Public Health Committee 10-0 on Wednesday, March 31.</u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>Senate Bill 107 (Senator John Michael Montgomery and Representative Todd Russ)</b> Gives the Office of Management and Enterprise Services (OMES) the authority, beginning with the Jan.
1, 2022 plan year, to renew vision plan contracts with plan providers for succeeding one-year terms if the provider had a contract for the immediately preceding year.</span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed Senate Retirement and Insurance Committee 9-0 on Monday, February 8. Passed off Senate Floor 47-0 on Thursday, February 10. Engrossed to House.
Passed House Banking, Financial Services and Pensions Committee 6-0 on Monday, March 29. </u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>Senate Bill 164 (Senator Brenda Stanley and Representative Cynthia Roe)</b> Modifies language related to participation in a research program or experimental procedures. It requires
human subject research to be approved by an accredited institutional review board rather than a local institutional review board. It requires when the patient is incapable of giving informed consent and is a minor that the consent be given by the parent or
legal guardian. </span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed Senate Health and Human Services Committee 10-0 Wednesday, February 3. Passed off the Senate Floor 43-2 on Tuesday, March 2. Engrossed to House.
Passed House Public Health Committee 10-0 on Wednesday, March 31. </u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>Senate Bill 207 (Senator Jessica Garvin and Senator Marcus McEntire)</b> Authorizes the Oklahoma Health Care Authority Administrator to designate an administrative law judge to perform
appeal hearings for those adversely affected by a decision of the authority.</span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed Senate Health and Human Services Committee 11-0 on Monday, February 8. Passed Full Appropriations Committee 19-0 on Wednesday, March 3. Passed
off the Senate Floor 42-0 on Wednesday, March 10. Engrossed to House. Assigned to House Health Subcommittee then to Appropriations and Budget Committee. Passed House Health Subcommittee 7-0 on Monday, March 29. Passed Appropriations Committee 32-0 on Wednesday,
April 7. </u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>Senate Bill 319 (Senator Robert Standridge and Representative Daniel Pae)</b> Exempts from the prohibition furnishing anyone under the age of 21 any cigarettes, cigarette papers, cigars,
bidis, snuff, chewing tobacco, or any other form of tobacco product, or vapor products persons performing activities as part of a scientific study being conducted by a research institution for the purpose of medical research to further efforts in cigarette
and tobacco use prevention and cessation and tobacco product regulation, provided that such medical research has been approved by a properly accredited institutional review board pursuant to applicable federal regulations.</span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed Senate Public Safety Committee 11-0 on Monday, February 8. Passed off the Senate Floor 46-0 on Thursday, February 11. Engrossed to House. Passed
House Public Safety Committee 9-0 on Tuesday, March 30. </u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>Senate Bill 406 (Senator Jessica Garvin and Representative Marcus McEntire) </b>Modifies the definitions of "University Hospital" and "Oklahoma's Children's Hospital." It authorizes
the University Hospital’s authority to assign any inpatient and outpatient hospital and clinical facilities, research buildings, facilities or property and any other buildings, facilities or property under its ownership or management and control to University
Hospital, Oklahoma Children's Hospital or any other division or entity which is part of University Hospital.</span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed Senate Health and Human Services Committee 11-0 on Monday, February 8. Passed off the Senate Floor 45-1 on Thursday, March 4. Engrossed to
House. Passed House Higher Education and Career Tech Committee 9-0 on Monday, April 5. </u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>House Bill 1124 (Representative Logan Phillips and Senator James Leewright)</b> Creates the State Broadband Deployment Grant Program to direct competitive grants to applicants seeking
to expand broadband internet services and directs the Corporation Commission to create the Rural Broadband Expansion Council to promulgate rules and procedures for the program.</span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed House Technology Committee 5-1 on Wednesday, February 24. Passed off the House Floor 91-6 on Tuesday, March 9. Engrossed to Senate. Passed
Senate Business, Commerce and Tourism Committee 11-1 on Thursday, March 25. Passed Senate Appropriations Committee 20-0 on Wednesday, March 31</u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>House Bill 2040 (Speaker Charles McCall and Senator James Leewright) </b>The measure provides a sales tax exemption, in the form of rebates, on sales of qualifying broadband equipment
if the property is directly used or consumed by the provider or subsidiary in or during the distribution of internet services.</span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed House Appropriations and Budget Committee 30-0 on Wednesday, February 24. Passed off the House Floor 85-14 on Thursday, March 11, Engrossed
to Senate. Passed Senate Finance Committee 12-0 on Tuesday, March 30. Title Stricken. Passed Senate Appropriations Committee 20-0 on Wednesday, April 7. </u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>House Bill 2090 (Speaker Charles McCall and Senator James Leewright)</b> Expands the Rural Broadband Expansion Council from 14 to 16 members. One of the additional members would represent
a wireless internet service provider and be appointed by the Speaker of the House. The other additional member would represent a Native American tribe and be appointed by the Senate President Pro Tem.</span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed House Technology Committee 6-0 on Wednesday, February 24. Emergency Added. Passed off the House Floor 97-0 on Tuesday, March 9. Engrossed to
Senate. Passed Senate Business, Commerce and Tourism Committee 11-1 on Thursday, April 8.</u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>House Bill 2928 (Speaker Charles McCall and Senator James Leewright)</b> Directs broadband service providers in the state to submit a report containing their network area coverage map
to the Department of Commerce and the Rural Broadband Expansion Council by October 31, 2021. The providers would be required to update this map and report annually. OneNet is also directed to provide mapping of all assets and network coverage. </span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed House Technology Committee 6-0 on Wednesday, February 24. Passed off the House Floor 97-0 on Tuesday, March 9. Engrossed to Senate. Passed
Senate Business, Commerce and Tourism Committee 12-1 on Tuesday, March 30.</u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>Senate Bill 802 (Senator James Leewright and Representative Logan Phillips)</b> Increases the Rural Broadband Expansion Council by one member to be filled by a tribal leader of this
state. </span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed Senate Business, Commerce and Tourism Committee 12-1 on Thursday, February 18. Passed off the Senate Floor 44-2 on Tuesday, March 9. Engrossed
to House. Passed House Technology Committee 6-0 on Wednesday, March 31. </u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>House Bill 1876 (Representative Tammy West and Senator Brenda Stanley)</b> Specifies what private employee information is not subject to the Open Meeting Act.</span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed House General Government Committee 8-0 On Wednesday, February 10. Passed off the House Floor 82-0 on Thursday, February 18. Engrossed to Senate.
Passed Senate Judiciary Committee 9-0 on Tuesday, March 23. </u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>House Bill 2644 (Representative Jon Echols and Senator Kim David)</b> Extends the provisions that allows for virtual open meetings until March 31, 2024</span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Assigned to House General Government Committee. Laid Over. Passed House General Government Committee 8-0 on Tuesday, February 24. Title Stricken.
Passed off the House Floor 92-6 on Tuesday, March 9. Engrossed to Senate. Passed Senate Judiciary Committee 10-0 on Tuesday, April 6.</u> </span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>Senate Bill 970 (Senator Kay Floyd and Representative Brad Boles)</b> Makes all license or certification public record, excluding an applicant’s personal address, phone number or other
personal material. </span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed Senate Judiciary Committee 9-0 on Tuesday, February 9. Passed off the Senate Floor 46-0 on Monday, March 1. Engrossed to House. Passed House
General Government Committee 8-0 on Wednesday, March 24. </u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>Senate Bill 1031 (Senator Greg Treat and Representative Jon Echols)</b> Extends the provisions that allow for virtual open meetings until the Governor declares the state of emergency
to have ended. </span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Assigned to Senate General Government Committee. Withdrawn from General Government Committee. Direct to Calendar. Passed off the Senate Floor as amended
by Floor Substitute with a vote of 45-0 on Wednesday, February 3. Direct to House Calendar. Passed off the House Floor 88-5 on Monday, February 8. Signed by Governor Stitt on Wednesday, February 10. </u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>Senate Bill 1032 (Senator Greg Treat and Speaker Charles McCall) </b>Requires livestreaming for virtual open meetings</span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed Senate General Government Committee 7-0 on Thursday, February 18. Passed off the Senate Floor 47-0 on Wednesday, March 10. Engrossed to House.
Assigned to House Rules Committee. Laid Over. Dormant pursuant to the rules.</u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>House Bill 1739 (Representative Sheila Dills and Senator Brenda Stanley)</b> Creates the Connecting Futures Act. It allows the Department of Human Services to, subject to available
funding, create a pilot program to address needs of any minors who are separated from their parents or legal guardians, are not supported by their parents or legal guardians and are not in the custody of the Department of Human Services or in the custody of
any Indian tribe. It requires the pilot program to allow the Department to provide assistance in securing necessary services to allow eligible minors to become self-reliant and productive citizens.</span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed House Children Youth and Family Services Committee 5-0 on Tuesday, February 9. Passed off the House Floor 82-6 on Monday, March 1. Engrossed
to Senate. </u><a name="x_x__Hlk66951420"></a>Dual Assigned to Senate Health and Human Services Committee and Senate Appropriations Committee.</span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>House Bill 1821 (Representative Toni Hasenbeck and Senator Dewayne Pemberton)</b> Increases flexibility in the use of Tuition Aid Grants, by removing language directing the Regents
for Higher Education to direct tuition aid grants to all eligible applicants, and adding factors to the way the awards are prioritized including: Enrollment status, unmet financial need, continuous enrollment, nearness to degree completion or certificate, state
employment needs, and eligibility for other State and institutional funds.</span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed House Higher Education and CareerTech Committee 9-0 on Monday, February 8. Passed off the House Floor 94-2 on Tuesday, March 2. Engrossed to
Senate. Passed Senate Education Committee 11-1 on Tuesday, March 23. </u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>House Bill 2399 (Representative Todd Russ and Senator Marty Quinn)</b> Extends the qualification for Oklahoma’s higher learning access program to those students whose parents died after
the students tenth grade year, and meet the other financial requirements. </span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Assigned to House Higher Education and CareerTech Committee. Amended by unanimous consent passed to House Higher Education and CareerTech Committee
9-0 on Monday, February 8. Passed off the House Floor 93-0 on Tuesday, March 2. Engrossed to Senate. Dual assigned to Senate Education Committee and Senate Appropriations Committee.</u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>Senate Bill 132 (Senator David Bullard and Representative Rhonda Baker)</b> Extends application window for Oklahoma’s Promise to the eleventh grade.</span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed Senate Education Committee 12-0 on Tuesday, February 23. Title Stricken. Passed off the Senate Floor 42-0 on Tuesday, March 9. Title Restored.
Engrossed to House. Passed House Higher Education and Career Tech Committee 10-0 on Tuesday, March 29. </u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>Senate Bill 237 (Senator Dewayne Pemberton and Representative Mark McBride)</b> Increases flexibility in the use of Tuition Aid Grants, by removing language directing the Regents for
Higher Education to direct tuition aid grants to all eligible applicants, and adding factors to the way the awards are prioritized including: Enrollment status, unmet financial need, continuous enrollment, nearness to degree completion or certificate, state
employment needs, and eligibility for other State and institutional funds. </span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed Senate Education Committee 12-0 Tuesday, February 9. Passed off the Senate Floor 44-1 on Wednesday, March 3. Engrossed to House. Passed House
Education Subcommittee 11-0 on Monday, March 29. Referred to full Appropriations and Budget Committee. </u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>Senate Bill 639 (Senator Adam Pugh and Representative Rhonda Baker)</b> Extends qualification for Oklahoma’s Promise to those enrolled in an area that has been identified as a critical
occupation area. Requires the Oklahoma Department of Commerce and the State Regents for Higher Education to publish a yearly list between October and June of the critical occupation areas that meet the guidelines. Requires the Regents, in consultation with
CareerTech, to identify postsecondary vo-tech programs that correlate to the critical occupation areas. </span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed Senate Education Committee 12-0 on Tuesday, February 9. Amended by Floor Substitute, which provides a 6-year time period to earn a baccalaureate
or other postsecondary education credential or requires that the Oklahoma’s Promise recipient enter into a repayment agreement with the institution of higher education or career technology center. Passed off the Senate Floor 36-9 on Thursday, March 11. Engrossed
to House. Assigned to House Higher Education and Career Tech Committee. Amended to remove the “clawback” repayment requirement. Passed House Higher Education and Career Tech Committee 9-0 on Monday, April 5.</u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>House Bill 2293 (Representative Dustin Roberts and Senator Lonnie Paxton) </b>modifies the matching of TRS funds to be based only on the member’s regular annual compensation regardless
of the source of funds, except federal funding. </span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed House Banking Financial Services and Pensions Committee 6-2 on Monday, February 22. Passed off the House Floor 51-38 on Thursday, March 11.
Emergency Failed. Engrossed to Senate. Title Stricken.</u> <u>Passed Senate Retirement and Insurance Committee 6-3 on Monday, April 5. </u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>Senate Bill 267 (Senator Dewayne Pemberton and Representative Jadine Nollan)</b> Allows retired educators who have received benefits for at least one year and who have not been employed
by a public school during that time to be eligible to be reemployed as an active classroom teacher in common or career tech school district with no limitation on earnings.</span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed Senate Retirement and Insurance Committee 9-0 on Thursday, February 18. Passed off the House Floor 36-11 on Wednesday, March 3. Engrossed to
House. Passed House Banking, Financial Services and Pensions Committee 7-0 on Monday, April 5.</u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>Senate Bill 683 (Senator Chris Kidd and Representative Mark Lepak) </b>Removes the one-year regular employment requirement for full-time non-classified optional personnel to join the
TRS.</span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Assigned to Senate Retirement and Insurance Committee. Laid Over. Passed Senate Retirement and Insurance Committee 8-1 on Monday, February 22. Passed
off the House Floor 41-2 on Thursday, March 11. Engrossed to House. Passed House Banking, Financial Services and Pensions Committee 7-0 on Monday, March 29. Author change Mark Lepak - Principal House Author.</u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>Senate Joint Resolution 18 (Senator Lonnie Paxton)</b> Puts to a vote of the people a constitutional amendment that requires any COLA to include funding. </span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Assigned to Senate Rules Committee.</u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>House Bill 1593 (Representative Melissa Provenzano and Senator Brenda Stanley)</b> Requires 7th-12th grade teachers to have workplace safety training emphasized into curriculum. The
program shall be completed the first year a certified teacher is employed by a school district. </span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed House Common Education Committee 13-0 Tuesday, February 16. Passed off House Floor 74-19 on Monday, March 1. Engrossed to Senate. Passed Senate
Education Committee 12-0 on Tuesday, March 30. Passed Senate Appropriations Committee 19-0 on Wednesday, April 7.</u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>House Bill 1773 (Representative Sherrie Conley and Senator Jessica Garvin)</b> Requires teaching candidates in early childhood elementary, secondary and special education to study the
philosophy framework and implementation of a multi-tiered systems of support (MTSS) designed to address the core academic and nonacademic needs of all students.</span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Assigned to House Common Education Committee. Amended by committee substitute. Passed House Common Education Committee 8-1 on Monday, February 8</u>.
<u>Passed off the House Floor 91-0 on Tuesday, March 2. Engrossed to Senate. Passed Senate Education Committee 9-0 in Tuesday, April 6. </u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>House Bill 1796 (Representative Nicole Miller and Senator Adam Pugh) </b>Allows the State Board of Education, in consultation with the Commission for Education Quality and Accountability
to grant subject area examination exceptions for initial certification in a field that does not require an advanced degree if the candidate already has an advanced degree in the subject essentially comparable to the content assessed in the examination.</span></font></div>
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<div style="text-indent:-36pt;padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"> <u>Update: Passed House Common Education Committee 13-0 on Tuesday, February 9. Passed off the House Floor 91-1 on Monday, March
1. Engrossed to Senator. Assigned to Senate Education Committee. Laid Over. Passed Senate Education Committee 11-0 on Thursday, April 8. </u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>House Bill 2329 (Representative Mark Lawson and Senator Frank Simpson)</b> Allows the State Board of Education to grant an exception to the certification examination to teacher candidates
who are deaf. </span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed House Rules Committee 8-0 on Thursday, February 25. Passed off the House Floor 97-0 on Tuesday, March 9. Engrossed to Senate.</u> <u>Dual assigned
to Senate Education Committee and Senate Appropriations Committee. Passed Senate Education Committee 12-0 Tuesday, March 30.</u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>House Bill 2693 (Representative Toni Hasenbeck and Senator Brenda Stanley)</b> Updates the name of the Oklahoma Commission for Teacher Preparation to the Office of Educational Quality
and Accountability. Rewards teachers who are renewing their National Board Certification by awarding them a portion of the renewal application fee.</span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Assigned to House Rules Committee. Reassigned to House Appropriations Committee. Passed House Appropriations Committee 28-0 on Thursday, February
18. Passed off the House Floor 81-11 on Wednesday, March 10. Engrossed to Senate. Dual assigned to Senate Education Committee and Senate Appropriations Committee. Passed Senate Education Committee 8-4 on Tuesday, April 6.</u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>House Bill 2748 (Representative Rhonda Baker and Senator Brenda Stanley)</b> Requires the State Board of Education to issue one-year alternative teacher certificates renewable for up
to 3 years to teach early childhood education or elementary education if the alternative certified teacher meets certain qualifications.</span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed House Common Education Committee 14-0 on Tuesday, February 9. Passed off the House floor 86-0 on Thursday, February 18. Engrossed to Senate.
Passed Senate Education Committee 12-0 on Tuesday, March 30. </u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>House Bill 2752 (Representative Rhonda Baker and Senator Brenda Stanley) </b>Requires the State Department of Education in coordination with the Commission for Educational Quality and
Accountability to establish a micro-credential programs for teachers who hold a certificate to complete additional coursework and earn STEM credentials.</span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed House Common Education Committee 14-0 on Tuesday, February 23. Passed off the House Floor 93-0 on Tuesday, March 9. Engrossed to Senate. Passed
Senate Education Committee 10-0 on Tuesday, April 6. </u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>Senate Bill 51 (Senator Carri Hicks and Representative Danny Sterling) </b>Removes the requirement to pass the general education portions of the competency examination for an alternative
placement teaching certificate or a teacher certificate.</span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed Senate Education Committee 11-0 on Tuesday, February 23. Passed off Senate Floor 33-12 on Monday, March 1. Engrossed to House. Assigned to
Senate Common Education Committee. Dormant pursuant to the rules.</u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>Senate Bill 67 (Senator Frank Simpson and Speaker Charles McCall)</b> Permits the State Board of Education to grant an exception to the requirements for all certification examinations
for teacher candidates who are "deaf."</span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Assigned to Senate Education Committee. Passed Senate Education Committee 12-0 on Tuesday, February 2. Passed off the Senate Floor 46-0 on Thursday,
March 4. Engrossed to House. Passed House Rules Committee 11-0 on Thursday, April 8. </u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>Senate Bill 229 (Senator John Michael Montgomery and Representative Kyle Hilbert)</b> Allows the State Board of Education to renew an Emergency or Provisional Teacher Certification
for up to five years. </span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed Senate Education Committee 10-2 on Tuesday, February 23. Title Stricken. Passed off the Senate Floor 37-8 on Thursday, March 11. Engrossed
to House. Passed House Common Education Committee 14-0 on Tuesday, April 6. </u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="font-size:14pt;"><b><u>Weapons on Campus / Gun Laws</u></b></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>House Bill 1629 (Representative David Hardin and Senator Micheal Bergstrom)</b> Preempts any federal, state county or municipal law rule or regulation that orders the confiscation of
firearms, firearm accessories of ammunition.</span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed House Judiciary-Criminal Committee 7-2 on Wednesday, February 10. Passed off the House Floor 77-19 Tuesday, March 9. Emergency added. Engrossed
to Senate. Assigned to Senate Public Safety Committee. Dormant pursuant to the rules.</u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>House Bill 1630 (Representative David Hardin and Senator Dewayne Pemberton)</b> Modifies the Unlawful Intent to Carry and Penalty Portions of Firearms Act to allow flexibility in punishment
upon conviction. Deletes the ability to permanently revoke a handgun license. Amends background checks to remove criminal history records fingerprints and FBI searches on license renewal. </span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed House Judiciary-Criminal Committee 8-1 on Wednesday, February 10. Passed off the House floor 78-18 on Monday, February 22. Engrossed to Senate.
Passed Senate Public Safety Committee 9-2 on Monday, March 29. </u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>House Bill 1662 (Representative Kevin West and Senator Nathan Dahm)</b> If a defendant claims self-defense the State of Oklahoma must then have to prove beyond reasonable doubt that
the defensive force was not justified. </span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed House Judiciary-Criminal Committee 7-2 on Wednesday, February 24. Passed off the House Floor 77-19 on Thursday, March 11. Engrossed to Senate.
Passed Senate Judiciary Committee 6-3 on Tuesday, April 6. </u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>House Bill 2334 (Representative Jay Steagall and Senator Micheal Bergstrom) </b>Authorizes the possession of firearms on streets, plazas, sidewalks and alleys. Authorizes open carry
on property of nonprofit entities and public trusts. </span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed House Public Safety Committee 5-2 on Tuesday, February 23. Passed off the House Floor 79-18 on Tuesday, March 9. Engrossed to Senate. Assigned
to Senate Public Safety Committee. Dormant pursuant to the rules.</u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>House Bill 2401 (Representative Todd Russ and Senator David Bullard</b>) Changes the ban on all felons from carrying firearms to a ban on anyone convicted of a specifically classified
violent felony from carrying firearms for a period of 5 years. </span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed House Judiciary-Criminal Committee 7-2 on Wednesday, February 24. Passed off the House Floor 77-19 on Wednesday, March 10. Engrossed to Senate.
Assigned to Senate Public Safety Committee. Dormant pursuant to the rules.</u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>House Bill 2588 (Representative Sean Roberts and Senator David Bullard)</b> Allows a board of education of a school district to adopt a policy to authorize the carrying of a handgun
onto school property by school personnel if the person possesses a valid handgun license and meets other requirements authorized by the board of education. </span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Assigned to House Criminal Justice and Corrections Committee. Amended by Committee Substitute. Passed House Criminal Justice and Corrections Committee
3-1 on Thursday, February 25. Passed off the House Floor 79-18, Emergency Passed 68-18 on Tuesday, March 9. Engrossed to Senate. Assigned to Senate Public Safety Committee. Dormant pursuant to the rules.</u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>House Bill 2645 (Representative Jon Echols and Senator David Bullard) </b>Allows the carrying of firearms in bars and restaurants as long as the carrier is not consuming alcoholic beverages.
Reduces fines and punishments from $1,000 and two years in prison to $250. Removes the revocation of a handgun license upon violation of this statute.</span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Assigned to House Public Safety Committee. Reassigned to House Criminal Justice and Corrections Committee. Passed House Criminal Justice and Corrections
Committee 3-1 on Thursday, February 25. Passed off the House Floor 78-19 on Tuesday, March 9. Engrossed to Senate. </u><a name="x_x__Hlk66949312"></a>Passed Senate Public Safety Committee 8-2 on Monday, April 5. </span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>Senate Bill 106 (Senator Mark Allen and Representative Terry O’Donnell</b>) Defines the term "completed application" within the Oklahoma Self-Defense Act to mean all fields are completed,
questions answered and contains all required signatures on the Application for Self-Defense Act License and all required documents including legible fingerprints, if applicable. It removes the 90-day grace period for handgun license renewals.</span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed Senate Public Safety Committee 9-2 on Friday, February 19. Passed off the Senate Floor 35-8 on Tuesday, March 2. Engrossed to House. Passed
House Rules Committee 9-0 on Tuesday, March 30. </u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>Senate Bill 631 (Senator Warren Hamilton and Representative Sean Roberts)</b> Makes Oklahoma a “Second Amendment Sanctuary State” pre-empting any legislation or rule at any level that
would infringe upon the right to bear arms. </span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed Senate Public Safety Committee 9-2 on Monday, February 22. Passed off the Senate Floor 38-8 on Tuesday, March 9. Engrossed to House. Passed
House Public Safety Committee 7-2 on Tuesday, March 30. </u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>Senate Bill 644 (Senator Blake Stephens and Representative Sean Roberts) </b>Allows municipalities to, by ordinance, authorize all or certain municipal employees to carry concealed
firearms.</span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed Senate Public Safety Committee 10-1 on Friday, February 19. Passed off the Senate Floor 39-8 on Tuesday, March 9. Engrossed to House. Passed
House County and Municipal Government Committee 8-2 on Monday, March 29. </u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>Senate Bill 646 (Senator Micheal Bergstrom and Representative Jay Steagall)</b> Allows the carrying of firearms in bars and restaurants as long as the carrier is not consuming alcoholic
beverages. Reduces fines and punishments from $1,000 and two years in prison to $250. Removes the revocation of a handgun license upon violation of this statute. </span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed Senate Public Safety Committee 9-2 on Monday, February 22. Title Stricken. Passed off the Senate Floor 37-9 on Tuesday, March 9. Engrossed
to House. Passed House Public Safety Committee 7-2 on Tuesday, March 30. </u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>Senate Bill 672 (Senator Casey Murdock and Representative Kenton Patzkowsky)</b> Allows unmitigated transport of firearms for any person not otherwise prohibited from purchasing or
carrying firearms. </span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed Senate Public Safety Committee 9-2 on Friday, February 19. Passed off the Senate Floor 39-7 on Tuesday, March 9. Engrossed to House. Assigned
to House Public Safety Committee. Reassigned to House Criminal Justice and Corrections Committee. Passed House Criminal Justice Committee 4-1 on Thursday, April 8.</u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>Senate Bill 730 (Senator Nathan Dahm and Representative Jay Steagall)</b> Bans any person, property owner, tenant, employer, or business entity from establishing or enforcing any rule
that prohibits transporting carrying or storing firearms. </span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed Senate Public Safety Committee 9-2 on Monday, February 22. Passed off the Senate Floor 36-8 on Tuesday, March 9. Engrossed to House. Passed
House Judiciary – Criminal Committee 8-2 on Wednesday, March 31. </u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>Senate Bill 732 (Senator Nathan Dahm and Representative Jim Olsen) </b>Allows anyone whose Second Amendment rights are violated to bring a lawsuit against any order or regulation or
other political subdivision of the state. Defines responsibilities of the court in such a case.</span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Assigned to Senate Public Safety Committee. Laid Over. Passed Senate Public Safety Committee 9-2 on Monday February, 22. Passed off the Senate Floor
38-8 on Tuesday, March 9. Engrossed to House. Passed House Public Safety Committee 7-2 on Tuesday, April 6. </u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>Senate Bill 925 (Senator Nathan Dahm and Representative Jay Steagall)</b> Modifies language related to self-defense with a firearm. It adds "occupied premises" to the list of places
the Legislature recognizes that the citizens of the State of Oklahoma have a right to expect absolute safety and that a person legally is allowed to defend.</span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed Senate Public Safety Committee 9-2 on Friday, February 19. Passed off the Senate Floor 36-8 on Tuesday, March 9. Engrossed to House. Passed
House Judiciary – Criminal Committee 8-2 on Wednesday, March 31. </u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>Senate Bill 926 (Senator Nathan Dahm and Representative Eric Roberts)</b> Extends the firearms law preemption to air powered pistols</span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed Senate Public Safety Committee 9-0 on Monday, February 22. Passed off the Senate Floor 45-0 on Tuesday, March 9. Engrossed to House. Passed
House Judiciary – Criminal Committee 6-2 on Wednesday, March 24. </u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>Senate Joint Resolution 21 (Senator David Bullard)</b> Puts to a vote of the people a constitutional amendment prohibiting any future legislation, taxation or rules that would infringe
upon Second Amendment rights. </span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Assigned to Senate Rules Committee.</u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="font-size:14pt;"><b><u>Workforce Development </u></b></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>House Bill 2860 (Representative Kevin Wallace and Senator Roger Thompson)</b> Creates the Oklahoma Remote Quality Jobs Inventive Act. Provides for the Department of Commerce and the
Oklahoma Tax Commission to create policy’s attracting growth industries that employ remote workers. </span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed House Appropriations and Budget Committee 29-0 on Wednesday, February 24. Passed off the House floor 96-0 on Wednesday, March 3. Engrossed
to Senate. Passed Senate Appropriations Committee 18-1 on Wednesday, April 7.</u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>House Bill 2929 (Speaker Charles McCall and Senator Greg Treat)</b> Requires the Department of Commerce to post on its website information related to its business recruiting efforts
with an emphasis on possible business site locations or relocation decisions within the state. </span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed House Rules Committee 9-2 on Wednesday, February 24. Passed off the House Floor 68-22 on Wednesday, March 10. Engrossed to the Senate. Title
Stricken. Passed Senate Business, Commerce and Tourism Committee 11-3 on Thursday, April 8. </u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>Senate Bill 71 (Senator Micheal Bergstrom and Representative Kevin McDugle)</b> Modifies language related to the Department of Commerce's requirement to promulgate rules for the administration
of the Oklahoma Local Development and Enterprise Zone Incentive Leverage Act. It requires the rules establish reporting requirements for successful applicants which allow data collection and analysis by the department on employment, capital investment, changes
in assessed value of a project and other impacts resulting from payments and reporting of data by the department to the Oklahoma Tax Commission.</span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed Senate Finance Committee 10-0 on Tuesday, February 9. Passed off the Senate Floor 45-0 on Tuesday, March 2. Engrossed to House. Passed House
Business and Commerce Committee 8-2 on Wednesday, April 7. </u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>Senate Bill 211 (Senator Tom Dugger and Representative Ken Luttrell)</b> Modifies the powers and duties of the Oklahoma Board of Private Vocational Schools. It permits a school to be
accredited by an accrediting organization approved by the U.S. Department of Education for multiple years, and to obtain a sustained license annually during the period of the multi-year accreditation. It modifies the fees the board may assess.</span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Assigned to Senate Education Committee. Title Stricken. Passed Senate Education Committee 10-2 on Tuesday, February 2. Passed Senate Appropriations
Committee 20-0 on Wednesday, February 24. Passed off the Senate floor 42-5 on Wednesday. March, 3. Engrossed to House. Passed House Common Education Committee 14-0 on Tuesday, April 6. </u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>Senate Bill 587 (Senator Chuck Hall and Representative Brad Boles)</b> Adds the delivery of industry focused instruction from Common Education, CareerTech or Higher Education to the
definitions in the Oklahoma Community Economic Development Pooled Finance Act. </span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed Senate Finance Committee 12-0 on Tuesday, February 23. Passed off the Senate Floor 42-0 on Wednesday, March 10. Engrossed to House. Passed
House Select Agencies Subcommittee 6-0 on Monday, April 5. Referred to full House Appropriations Committee. </u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>Senate Bill 936 (Senator Chuck Hall and Representative Kevin Wallace)</b> Combines the various quality jobs programs under the Oklahoma Quality Jobs Program Act. </span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Update: Passed Senate Business, Commerce and Tourism Committee 11-1 on Thursday, February 11. Passed Senate Appropriations and Budget 20-0 on Thursday, February
18. Passed off the Senate Floor 43-2 on Tuesday, March 9. Engrossed to House. Passed House Appropriations and Budget Committee 27-1 on Wednesday, March 31. </u></span></font></div>
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