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Oversight Bill for the Turnpike Authority

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Senate Bill 199, authored by Senator Standridge (R-Norman), is the first of several bills written this session to add oversight, accountability, and citizen protections into the Turnpike Enabling Act. SB 199 seeks to create a Joint Legislative Task Force “for the purpose of studying the functions, activities, policies, procedures and expenditures performed by the (Turnpike)…

Voter registration statistics

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(Oklahoma City) – An official voter registration report by the Oklahoma State Election Board shows 2,225,086 people are registered to vote as of January 15, 2023. The annual report comes days after the State Election Board conducted its statutorily-required voter list maintenance process, removing inactive voters and duplicate voters. Current numbers show Republicans make up…

Voter Registration deadline is approaching quickly

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Friday, February 10, is the last day to apply for voter registration in order to be eligible to vote in the March 7, Special Election for State Question 820, Tulsa County Election Board Secretary Gwen Freeman said today. Freeman said that persons who are United States Citizens, residents of Oklahoma, and at least 17 ½…

Traveling Portrait Exhibit of 55 Over 55 Inspiring Oklahomans Launches at State Capitol

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OKLAHOMA CITY (January 19, 2023) – The traveling portrait exhibit of the inaugural class of 55 Over 55 Inspiring Oklahomans launches this week at the State Capitol on the fourth floor Rotunda with a free reception open to the public on Saturday, January 21, from 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm. The portraits will remain on…

Legislation filed to strengthen the energy sector and promote energy independence

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OKLAHOMA CITY – Sen. Nathan Dahm, R-Broken Arrow, has filed legislation to strengthen the energy sector and promote energy independence. “On this day in 1862, the first petroleum shipment from the U.S. to Europe arrived in England,” Dahm said. “Unfortunately, the radical left has so crippled our country with their ridiculous climate policies, that we…

Sen. Dahm files legislation to prevent further pandemic tyranny

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OKLAHOMA CITY – Sen. Nathan Dahm, R-Broken Arrow, has filed multiple pieces of legislation aimed at ending any remnants of the Covid tyranny, ensuring that there are greater limitations on government power during emergencies, and providing greater protections for individual freedoms in the event of such emergencies. “Three years ago, governments around the world chose…

Legislation filed to fight destructive woke gender ideology

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OKLAHOMA CITY – Sen. Nathan Dahm, R-Broken Arrow, has filed legislation to fight the dangerous and destructive woke gender ideology of the left. “For years, Senate leadership has dismissed the threat that the left’s gender ideology poses to our state,” Dahm said. “However, with instances of ‘family friendly’ drag shows, drag queen story hours, and…

Bill filed by Bullard prohibiting genital mutilation of youth under 26

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OKLAHOMA CITY – Sen. David Bullard, R-Durant, recently filed Senate Bill 129, also known as the Millstone Act, to prohibit Oklahoma doctors from providing gender transition procedures or referral services relating to such procedures to anyone under the age of 26. The bill would further authorize the state’s attorney general to enforce the act and…

House Committee, Leadership appointments

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OKLAHOMA CITY – The Oklahoma House of Representatives committee leadership and Republican majority leadership appointments have been made for the 59th Oklahoma Legislature. House Speaker Charles McCall, R-Atoka, was formally elected Tuesday by the full House to his fourth two-year term as speaker, making him the longest-serving speaker in state history. Speaker Pro Tempore Kyle…

Jan. 30 is deadline to apply for absentee ballots for Feb. 14 election

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Voters in Tulsa County who want absentee ballots mailed to them for the February 14, Board of Education Primary for ISD-11 Owasso Public Schools Office No. 3, Special Propositions Elections for ISD-7 Skiatook Public Schools, ISD-5 Jenks Public Schools and ISD-9 Union Public Schools; as well as the City of Broken Arrow Special PSO Utility…