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The state House of Representatives passed a controversial bill that would allow anyone over 21-years-old without a felony conviction to carry a handgun without a license Wednesday.
House Bill1019XX, touting $20.5 million towards education, passed the Oklahoma house Wednesday evening.
State lawmakers strike a deal to give teachers, on average, $6,100 annual raises and to give raises to state workers.
After leaving the vote open for more than six hours, the state House of Representatives gaveled out without passing the largest portion of the Step Up Oklahoma plan.
A bill that would have meant the highest tax increase in the state’s history and a 5-thousand dollar pay raise for teachers, appears DOA.
Two months after ending his gubernatorial aspirations and announcing his resignation from the state House, Scott Inman has had a change of heart, at least partly. He's decided to continue representing House District 94.
House Democrats will be breaking in a new leader as the year ends. Rep. Jason Dunnington (D-Oklahoma City) said this morning on News 9's Your Vote Counts that Rep. Stephen Kouplen (D-Beggs) will be the new House minority leader.
A bill touted by Republicans as being their “last best” offer to bridge the state’s budget gap and offer teachers and state workers raises is now dead.
It's back to the drawing board for state Representatives after the new GOP budget deal failed at the Capitol.
Oklahoma House Minority Leader Scott Inman is resigning from the legislature and discontinuing his run for Governor.
The state GOP is close to pushing a budget through and ending the special session, a source told News 9 Monday morning.
Speaker of the Oklahoma House of Representatives Charles McCall (R-Atoka) told state agencies to hold off on program and service cuts after nearly three weeks of this year’s rare special session at the Oklahoma state capitol have proved fruitless.
The Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services is preparing for $75 million in cuts.
The state capitol was filled with more of the same budget drama as lawmakers continued to work to bridge a $215 million shortfall. Democrats said Thursday morning an agreement was reached but Governor Mary Fallin said later that day there was no agreement in place.
The leader of the Oklahoma House Democrats says he's prepared to deliver the votes of all 28 of his members for a broad budget agreement that includes tax increases on cigarettes, fuel, oil and gas production and income of the state's top earners.
State lawmakers in committee passed a bill to raise the cigarette tax by $1.50 per pack.
The legislature met today for the first day of a special session called by the governor to bridge a roughly $215 million budget shortfall.
The State Supreme Court has ruled a controversial revenue raising measure is constitutional.
