February 25, 2016 BUDGET and TAXES This week was the deadline for Senate bills to make it out of committee to the full Senate. Among the measures headed to the Senate are a variety of options to help us deal with the $1.3 billion budget crisis The Senate Republican Caucus (SRC) is taking a look…
February 18, 2016 BUDGET The Senate Republican Caucus is ready to take leadership on the state budget. We will take this opportunity to set spending priorities so we can limit the impact on core government functions like education, public safety and transportation Oklahoma is facing a historic budget crisis. With a $1.3 billion budget…
Oklahoma State Senate Communications Division State Capitol Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73105 February 5, 2016 From the desk of Sen. Rob Standridge Oklahoma is ranked among the bottom states in the nation when it comes to several areas of public health, including diabetes, obesity, cancer, heart attacks and stroke. These conditions shorten life-spans, diminish quality of…
Immediate Release: February 2, 2016 Sen. Standridge says capitated managed care for Medicaid would be ‘disastrous’ for state (For digital audio, go to www.oksenate.gov and select “Media”) The chairman of the Senate’s Health and Human Services Committee has filed legislation to put the brakes on implementation of a capitated managed care system for Medicaid in…
WEEK 1 – 2016: The Senate this year filed 704 Senate bills and 42 Senate Joint Resolutions. A total of 636 Senate Bills and 31 Senate Joint Resolutions carried over from the 2015 session. The governor on Monday delivered her State of the State Address and executive budget. President Pro Tempore Bingman released the following…
Budget We believe we have delivered a fiscally responsible budget that includes strategic spending cuts and much-needed apportionment reform The Senate this year emphasized a more comprehensive examination of state spending to identify efficiencies, and structural reforms to give the Legislature greater flexibility in the appropriations process We also met with state agencies for months…
WEEK 5 – 2015: The full Senate has advanced Sen. Bingman’s incentive review proposals. Senate Bills 806 and 815 would establish a process to provide lawmakers with independent evaluations of economic incentives, and a clear picture of those that encourage growth and those that do not. It’s time for us to give greater scrutiny to…
Session begins, Fallin delivers State of the State address Senate The Senate filed a total of 814 bills and 32 joint resolutions. The Senate just finished the first of its four weeks of committee work. As expected, committee work was light in the first week of session, and will pick up considerably in the coming…
Bugdet reform bill clears Senate committee SJR 30 would send to a vote of the people a proposal to dedicate every other legislative year exclusively to drafting the state’s budget This reform would bring increased transparency and scrutiny to the budget process Crafting the state’s budget is one of our most important responsibilities, and this…
Tulsa World article on new divorce education bill.