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Blue Lives Matter Bill Passes House OKLAHOMA CITY – A bill that would increase the likelihood of the death penalty for people convicted of killing a law enforcement officer in the line of duty passed the House with a vote of 73-21 Wednesday. House Bill 1306, by State...

Rep. Sean Roberts Praises Passage of Second Amendment Protection Bill State Rep. Sean Roberts praised the passage of House Bill 1803, which prohibits the expenditure of public monies to oppose rights protected by the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution....

Property Reduction Program Provides Benefit to Department of Corrections According to testimony provided to the Government Modernization Committee today, more than 3.1 million dollars has now been generated through a program of inventorying and selling underutilized...

Crime bill passes through committee with bipartisan support Legislation that seeks to consider all rape by instrumentation as rape in the first degree has passed its first hurdle to becoming law after the House Judiciary – Criminal Justice & Corrections Committee...

House Speaker McCall Appoints Rep. Hall to Chair Business and Tourism Committee Oklahoma House Speaker Charles McCall today named state Rep. Elise Hall as chair of the House Business, Commerce and Tourism Committee. Rep. Hall previously served as vice chair of the...

House Approves Bill to Reduce Testing in Schools Legislation approved today by the Oklahoma House of Representatives will reduce testing in K-12 schools. House Bill 3218 reduces the number of required tests to 18, including: 12 English and math tests between grades...

General Revenue Fund Collections for April Fall Short of Estimate  The Oklahoma Office of Management and Enterprise Services reported this week that General Revenue Fund (GRF) collections in April missed the estimate by nearly 13 percent. Despite the lower revenues,...

House Republicans Elect Rep. Charles McCall as Speaker-Designate Republicans in the Oklahoma House of Representatives elected state Rep. Charles McCall this week as the Speaker-designate for the 56th Legislature beginning in February 2017. McCall, a banker from Atoka,...

Senate Passes Smart on Crime Reform Bills A slate of bills aimed at improving public safety and reducing Oklahoma’s overcrowded prisons by reducing mandatory minimum sentences for some drug crimes, giving prosecutors more discretion in filing charges and expanding...