Tag: Senate Bill

Virtual Charter School reforms

January 10, 2019 Tulsa Beacon

Sen. Ron Sharp filed legislation to modify several Virtual Charter School laws in Oklahoma.  The 40-year retired educator said his bills are an effort to increase virtual charter school accountability and oversight.  “There has been public outcry in recent years to improve public education and that includes virtual charter schools where millions of taxpayer dollars…

Bill will extend ban to vaping

December 20, 2018 Tulsa Beacon

Oklahoma has a ban on tobacco products for public and private school buildings and vehicles.  After conducting an interim study this fall, state Sen. J.J. Dossett has filed legislation for the 2019 session that would extend that ban to vaping. “If you look at the studies coming out from the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) and…

Editorial: Sen. Joseph Silk is a true hero

December 13, 2018 Tulsa Beacon

Enough unborn babies have died in Oklahoma. State Sen. Joseph Silk, a hero in the truest sense of the word, has introduced a bill in the Oklahoma Legislature to criminalize abortion by placing it in the state statues on felony homicide. Senate Bill 13, the Abolition of Abortion in Oklahoma Act, would make abortion a…