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Legislation Championing States’ Rights Passes the House - February 25, 2021
OKLAHOMA CITY – House Bill 1236 sponsored by House Speaker Charles McCall, R-Atoka, and Rep. Mark McBride, R-Moore, and House Resolution 1005 sponsored by Rep. Jay Steagall, R-Yukon, overwhelmingl...
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Regents approve Dr. Evans’ retirement letter, regent Brownlee sworn in - February 25, 2021
Northern Oklahoma College regents formally accepted the retirement letter of President Dr. Cheryl Evans at Wednesday’s meeting at NOC Tonkawa’s Renfro Center. Dr. Evans anno...
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Domestic Violence Victim Protection Legislation Passes Committee - February 25, 2021
OKLAHOMA CITY – Legislation that increases protections for domestic violence victims passed the House Judiciary-Criminal Committee on Wednesday with a vote of 9 to 0. House Bill 1658, authored ...
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Committee work complete - February 25, 2021
By Sen. Bill Coleman For the next two weeks, we’ll be on the Senate floor working through the nearly 600 bills that made it out of committee. Again, rules were suspended to give the Appro...
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Mueller Joining Cabinet as Secretary of Commerce and Workforce Development - February 25, 2021
Governor Kevin Stitt announced today he has nominated Scott Mueller to join his cabinet as the Secretary of Commerce and Workforce Development. Pending Senate confirmation, Mueller will ...
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Senate, House Redistricting Committees approve rules, process - February 25, 2021
OKLAHOMA CITY – The Senate Select Committee on Redistricting and the House State and Federal Redistricting Committee met Thursday at the Oklahoma Capitol and adopted redistricting rules and guidel...
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Alcohol Law Modernization Bill Passes House Committee - February 25, 2021
OKLAHOMA CITY – Oklahomans may soon be able to purchase alcohol through liquor store drive-thrus thanks to bipartisan legislation that passed the House Appropriations & Budget Committee on Wed...
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LOFT Democrats Respond to CARES Act Report - February 25, 2021
OKLAHOMA CITY -- House Democrats on the Legislative Office of Fiscal Transparency Committee released the following statements after the presentation of LOFT’s evaluation of how Oklahoma spent fede...
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Heartbeat Bill Passes Committee - February 25, 2021
OKLAHOMA CITY – State Rep. Todd Russ, R-Cordell, on Wednesday won committee passage of a bill that would stop abortions from being performed once an unborn child is determined to have a detectable...
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Oklahoma COVID-19 Update for 25 February 2021 - February 25, 2021
SITUATION UPDATE: COVID-19 As of this advisory, there are 422,156 cases of COVID-19 in Oklahoma. Kay County has a reported a total of 5,064 confirmed cases of the virus, resulting in 75 deaths...
