FY’19 Budget Highlights

• $7.6 billion budget
• Approximately $745 million increase over FY’18
• $365 million for teacher pay raises
• $54 million for state employee raises
• $260 million in growth revenue
• No cuts for any agency
• Bond payments for Native American Cultural Center shifted from Commerce to OMES – why Commerce appears to be cut 25 percent and OMES increased 25 percent
• $2.9 billion for education, a 19 percent increase
• $6,100 teacher pay raise, on average
• $52 million for support staff raises
• $24.6 million increase to fund teacher health benefits
• $480 million total spent on health benefits for teachers and support staff
• $33 million for textbooks
• $17 million in new state-aid funding formula
• $7.5 million increase for concurrent enrollment ($8.42 million total funding)
• $24.6 million funding increase for DHS – makes Pinnacle Plan “whole”
• 7 percent increase for Medicaid Advantage waiver, Developmental Disability and Group Home rate increases
• 5 percent increase on foster care and adoption rates
• $2 million increase for the DDSD wait list
• Provide services for approximately 170 people
• $11 million in criminal justice reform initiatives:
• $5 million to Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services
• $1.1 million to Oklahoma Indigent Defense System (OIDS)
• $1 million to District Attorney’s Council
• $2 million for agency performance audits conducted by Agency Performance and Accountability Commission
• $4.8 million to Department of Corrections to implement electronic offender management system
• $4 million to Office of Emergency Management for disaster relief
• $400,000 to Department of Agriculture for rural fire fighters