From: Bryce Fair & Carolyn McCoy
Date: Friday, February 21, 1997
Subject: Bill Tracking Update
The following document consists of three sections. Section I provides
a brief narrative of legislative highlights from the week. Section
II is an index of the bills we are tracking and Section III provides
a short description of each bill and the latest legislative action
on the bill.
Board of Equalization Certifies Appropriation Level: On
Tuesday, the Board of Equalization certified that the Legislature
would have $285 million in additional funds to appropriate in
FY'98.
In an unusual action, the Board voted to increase the estimate
of available funds $26 million above what the Office of State
Finance (OSF) had recommended.
In December the board approved an estimate which increased the
amount of funds available for appropriation over last year by
$217 million. At Tuesday's meeting, OSF recommended increasing
the estimate of new funds available from $217 million to $260
million, an increase of $43 million. However, Attorney General
Drew Edmondson made a motion to increase the estimate another
$26 million, to a total of $285 million (only 95%, or $24.7 million,
of the $26 million could be appropriated).
Mr. Edmondson's rationale was based on projected gross production
tax revenue (oil and natural gas). OSF's estimate assumed that
gross production revenue would decline by $26 million in FY'98
from the totals expected to be collected in FY'97 (which ends
June 30, 1997). His motion was based on the assumption that revenue
from this source will remain the same in FY'98 as FY'97.
The motion passed on a vote of 5 ayes and 2 nays. Those voting
for the motion included Mr. Edmondson, Superintendent of Education
Sandy Garrett, State Treasurer Robert Butkin, Lt. Governor Mary
Fallin, and State Auditor Clifton Scott. Governor Keating and
Agriculture Commissioner Dennis Howard voted against the motion.
Committees Meet First Deadline: Legislative committees
considered hundreds of bills this week as they worked toward Thursday's
deadline on committee action. All bills not heard in committee
are dead for the 1997 session. Many of the bills on our tracking
list were among those not heard. All these bills will be removed
from our list next week.
Upcoming Events:
Upcoming Legislative Deadlines:
Meetings Next Week:
Wednesday, February 19, (time of meeting not scheduled
as of Friday, February 21) , room 511-A at the Capitol: Senate
Appropriations Subcommittee on Education (Chair - Darryl Roberts,
Ted Fisher, Charles Ford, Bill Gustafson, Brad Henry, Mike Morgan,
Mark Snyder, Penny Williams)
Agenda: FY'98 Budget Request for Higher Education
Actions on Bills This Week:
Bills Passed from Senate Floor:
Bills Passed from Senate Committees:
Bills Failed in Senate Committees:
Bills Passed from House Floor:
Bills Passed from House Committees:
Bills Failing in House Committee:
Bills Added to the List:
Bills Deleted from the List:
If you need copies of any of the bills, please contact Carolyn
McCoy at (405) 225-9165 or e-mail her at "cmccoy@osrhe.edu".
Academies
SB 13
Ad valorem taxes
SB 348
SB 405
SB 589
HB 1072
HB 1337
HB 1338
HB 2075
HB 2190
Administrative procedures
SB 216
SB 217
HB 1120
HB 1121
HB 1564
HB 2111
HB 2120
Admission standards
HJR 1003
Advanced placement
HB 2017
Aircraft
HB 1009
HB 1012
HB 1019
HB 1915
Alcohol/drug counselor licensure
BH 2089
Appropriations
SB 103
SB 110
SB 122
Appropriations (cont'd)
SB 160
HB 1119
HB 1610
HB 1854
HB 1872
HB 1878
HB 1880
HB 1885
HB 1887
HB 1894
HJR 1002
HJR 1009
Asbestos abatement
SB 38
HB 1987
Attorney General opinions
HB 1014
Benefits
SB 174
SB 232
SB 535
SB 677
SB 681
Bidding
SB 549
Bonds
SB 713
HB 1895
HB 1992
Bribery
HB 1642
Budgeting
HB 1907
Campus police
SB 523
SB 529
HB 1646
HB 1934
Certified Public Accountants
HB 1166
Charitable fiduciary
HB 1660
Charter schools
SB 740
HB 1011
HB 1418
HB 1603
Child care facilities
HB 2133
Child support
SB 706
HB 1294
HB 2058
Computer conversions
HB 1434
Computer donations
HB 1688
Conservation Division, educational requirements
SB 316
Construction
SB 389
HB 1991
Contracts
SB 389
SB 703
HB 1897
HB 1991
Credits, transfer of
SB 420
HB 1561
Data processing
HB 1818
HB 2076
Dentistry
SB 448
SB 514
HB 2090
HB 2155
Deposits
HB 1817
Discrimination
HJR 1010
Early childhood
HB 1413
Ebonics
HB 1810
Economic development
SB 571
HB 1254
Educational Indicators
SB 758
HB 2125
Electronic signatures
HB 1690
Employee associations
SB 218
Employee benefits
SB 174
SB 232
SB 247
Employee discount
SB 262
Employee protection
HB 1017
Employee reduction in force
SB 539
Employee rights
HJR 1019
Employment Security
SB 43
HB 1206
HB 2200
Employment, temporary
SB 36
SB 330
English as common language
SB 343
HB 1231
English proficiency
HB 1364
Entry-year teacher
SB 376
Equestrian activities
HB 1083
Fees, student
HB 1042
HB 1365
Fee, supplemental
SB 746
Fee waivers
SB 199
HB 1312
Fiscal year
HB 2061
Funding plan
SB 35
Genetic discrimination
HB 2021
Government Tort Claims
HB 2031
Health/safety
SB 249
Health/safety (cont'd)
HB 2095
High challenge schools
HB 1755
Holidays
HB 1997
Homosexual lifestyles
HB 1260
Income tax credit
SB 9
SB 346
SB 571
SB 616
HB 1483
HB 1507
HB 1623
HB 1688
HB 1791
HB 2062
HB 2117
Insurance, disability
SB 451
Insurance, health
SB 22
SB 48
SB 87
SB 193
SB 248
SB 254
SB 274
SB 277
SB 280
SB 327
SB 412
SB 536
SB 538
SB 551
SB 552
SB 640
SB 642
SB 658
SB 692
SB 752
HB 1077
Insurance, health (cont'd)
HB 1086
HB 1091
HB 1173
HB 1221
HB 1222
HB 1416
HB 1532
HB 1562
HB 1563
HB 1598
HB 1608
HB 1702
HB 1916
HB 2014
HB 2047
HB 2093
HB 2114
Inventory
HB 1694
HB 1991
Investment
HB 1990
HJR 1017
HJR 1018
Kerr, Robert S., Museum
SB 101
Land Office Commissioners
HB 1719
HJR 1018
Langston University
HB 1774
Lead-based paint
SB 315
Leave
SB 698
SJR 1
HB 1145
HB 2161
Leave, military
HB 1210
Legal representation
HB 1739
Legislation
HB 1315
Livestock activities
HB 1159
HB 1521
Maternity benefits
SB 412
HB 1598
Medical savings
HB 1666
Medical school faculty/students
SB 410
HB 2012
Motor vehicles
HB 1331
National Assessment of Educational Progress
SB 760
Northeastern State University
HB 2105
Nurses
SB 435
Obscene materials
HB 1692
HB 2151
Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science and Technology (OCAST)
SB 103
SB 122
Oklahoma Education Television Auth. (OETA)
SB 73
HB 1024
Oklahoma Higher Learning Access Program (OHLAP)
SB 273
SB 594
Oklahoma State University
SB 420
HB 1515
Oklahoma Tuition Aid Grant (OTAG)
SB 708
OneNet
HB 1610
Open Meeting
SB 496
Payroll
SB 218
SB 706
Physical therapists
SB 2
HB 1366
Physician Manpower Training Comm.
SB 144
Poison control center
HB 1362
Prepaid tuition
HB 1055
HB 1349
Prevailing wage
HB 1773
Private colleges/universities
SB 741
Privatization functions
SB 699
Professional development
HB 1467
Purchasing
SB 78
SB 561
Records
SB 617
Residential Care Administrative Training Certification
HB 1540
Retirement
SB 181
SB 182
SB 183
SB 354
SB 473
SB 533
HB 1085
HB 1092
HB 1093
HB 1094
HB 1096
HB 1098
HB 1099
HB 1100
HB 1101
HB 1102
HB 1119
HB 1173
HB 1408
HB 1553
HB 1609
HB 1651
HB 1654
HB 1656
HB 1670
HB 1964
HJR 1030
HJR 1034
Right to work
SB 21
SB 23
SB 302
SB 444
SJR 1
HB 1259
HB 1453
Risk management
HB 1768
School land fund
SB 541
School testing
HB 1560
HB 2125
Science/Math
SB 1
Service contracts
SB 561
Small Business Development Act
SB 571
Smoke detectors
HB 1531
Smoking
SB 60
HB 2146
Sole source
HB 1897
State-owned vehicles
HB 1008
State Regents
SB 143
Student advisory boards
SB 684
Student loans
SB 417
Student teachers
SB 376
Surplus
SB 362
Surveillance equipment
SB 634
Swimming pools, public
HB 1980
Tax improvement
HJR 1012
HJR 1024
Teacher certification
SB 202
SB 422
HB 1308
HB 1342
HB 1411
Teacher education/training
SB 200
SB 398
Teacher preparation
SB 200
SB 202
SB 416
SB 707
HB 1342
HB 1411
HB 1412
HB 1559
HB 1872
HB 1877
HB 1986
HB 2017
Technicians
SB 517
HB 1607
Technology
SB 398
HB 1921
Telecommunications
SB 336
HB 1073
HB 1671
HB 1815
HB 2076
Telemedicine
SB 48
Telephone system, automated
SB 298
HB 2138
Tests, criterion-referenced
HB 1455
Trailblazer schools
SB 592
Training
HB 1732
Travel
SB 90
SB 360
SB 697
SB 701
SB 725
HB 1961
Tuition/fees
SB 199
SB 746
HB 1042
HB 1139
HB 1312
HJR 1022
Tuition savings
HB 1561
HB 2060
HB 2102
Tuition trust
HB 1055
HB 1349
Unemployment
SB 40
University Hospitals
SB 58
SB 454
HB 1362
HB 1644
HB 1854
HB 1859
HB 1995
HB 2013
University Hospitals (cont'd)
HB 2015
University of Oklahoma
SB 43
University of Oklahoma Law Center
HB 1484
Violence prevention
HCR 1002
Weapons
SB 523
HB 1934
Welfare/work training
SB 743
HB 1246
HB 2168
HB 2170
Workers' compensation
SB 80
SB 240
SB 282
SB 284
SB 382
SB 411
SB 522
SB 562
SB 577
SB 665
SB 674
SB 730
HB 1038
HB 1039
HB 1065
HB 1067
HB 1068
HB 1203
HB 1296
HB 1382
HB 1439
HB 1565
HB 1672
HB 1673
HB 1820
HB 1963
HB 1998
SENATE BILLS
* SB 1 (Fisher/Tyler) - SCIENCE/MATH CURRICULUM PILOT PROJECT. Requires the Oklahoma School of Science and Mathematics to solicit proposals and award grants for pilot projects that develop and establish model programs implementing advanced science and math curriculum at local vo-tech or school sites by distance learning; creates an advisory council to establish student participation criteria in such pilot program, determining the curriculum needs and to work in the recruitment and hiring of faculty for the pilot program, all in conjunction with the School of Science and Mathematics. (70 § 1210.404)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
EDUCATION
TITLE STRICKEN 02/17/97
SENATE COMMITTEE - DO PASS AS AMENDED 02/17/97
GENERAL ORDER - SENATE 02/17/97
* SB 2 (Fisher) - PHYSICAL THERAPISTS/CONTINUING EDUCATION. Modifies membership of the Physical Therapy Committee; provides educational and training requirements for foreign-trained applicants for a license to practice as a physical therapist or a physical therapist assistant; requires continuing education for renewal of physical therapist and physical therapist assistant licenses; directs the State Board of Medical Licensure and Supervision to establish requirements for continuing education and to consider certain programs. (59 O.S. § 887.4)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
BUSINESS & LABOR
* SB 9 (Milacek) - INCOME TAX DEDUCTION/TUITION/FEES. Provides an income tax deduction for certain adoption expenses, certain retirement income, and for tuition and fees at an Oklahoma public or private college or university of not more than $1,200 for each fall or spring semester in which student is enrolled in at least 12 credit hours, and $600 for summer semesters with a minimum enrollment of six hours; disallows deduction for tuition and fees paid by grants, scholarships, stipends, employer reimbursements or payments, or amounts subject to tuition waivers. (68 § 2358)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
FINANCE
* SB 13 (Williams) - ACADEMIES. Creates the Academies Act; defines the term academy as a pubic school established by contract with a local board of education to provide learning that will improve student achievement; authorizes a pubic school, public body, public or private college or university, private person or private organization to contract with a sponsor to establish an academy; establishes purpose and specifies other requirements. (70 §§ 3-130/3-134)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
EDUCATION
* SB 21 (Fair) - RIGHT TO WORK. Creates the "Oklahoma Freedom to Work Law"; declares public policy that the freedom to work not be subject to undue restraint or coercion; provides that the freedom to work shall not be infringed or restricted in any way based on membership in, affiliation with or financial or other support of a labor organization or on refusal to join, affiliate with or financially or otherwise support a labor organization. (40 § 471.1)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
BUSINESS & LABOR
* SB 22 (Fisher) - HEALTH INSURANCE/EYE CARE. Creates the "Primary Eye Care Provider Act"; requires health benefit plans covering eye or vision care to ensure direct access to primary eye care providers who have contracted with the plan, to allow an enrollee in a gatekeeper system to designate from a list of eye care providers provided by the plan, to not discriminate between or recommend certain individual providers or classes of providers; to include an adequate number of providers to ensure reasonable accessibility and to make available to covered persons a list of all primary eye care providers who have contracted with the plan, their practice locations and telephone numbers on a regular, timely basis. (36 §§ 6052.1/6052.3)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
APPROPRIATIONS
* SB 23 (Hendrick) - RIGHT TO WORK. Provides that the right to work not be subject to undue restraint or coercion; prohibits infringement upon or restriction of the right to work in any way based on membership in, affiliation with or financial or other support of a labor organization or on refusal to join, affiliate with or financially or otherwise support a labor organization. (40 § 471)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
BUSINESS & LABOR
SENATE COMMITTEE - DO PASS FAILED 02/10/97
* SB 35 (Williams) - EDUCATION FUNDING. Directs the State Regents, the State Board of Education, the Board of Vocational and Technical Education, and the Commission for Teacher Preparation to prepare a joint funding plan to provide incentives for innovative education programs subject to the availability of funds; requires that such plan provided for incentives to be awarded for competency-based programs that emphasize effective learning practices. (70 § 818)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
APPROPRIATIONS
TITLE STRICKEN 02/19/97
SENATE COMMITTEE - COM SUB DO PASS 02/19/97
GENERAL ORDER - SENATE 02/19/97
* SB 36 (Dickerson) - TEMPORARY EMPLOYMENT. Creates the "State Temporary Employment Act.". (74 § 842-1.1)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
APPROPRIATIONS
SENATE COMMITTEE - COM SUB DO PASS 02/19/97
GENERAL ORDER - SENATE 02/19/97
* SB 38 (Dickerson/Hefner) - ASBESTOS ABATEMENT. Authorizes the Department of Central Services to charge state agencies and other entities a fee for services provided by the Asbestos Abatement Division. The committee substitute removes authority of the Department of Health and Department of Labor to establish priorities for asbestos abatement in public schools and state-owned buildings. (74 § 61.6)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
APPROPRIATIONS
SENATE COMMITTEE - COM SUB - DO PASS 02/12/97
GENERAL ORDER - SENATE 02/20/97
* SB 40 (Fisher/Roach) - UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION. Provides that, during the period from July 1, 1997, through Dec. 31, 1999, the contribution rate of all employers who qualify for an earned contribution rate shall be reduced by 25 percent after the earned contribution rate is calculated; provides that employers who are given an earned rate of 5.5 percent shall not be eligible for such rate reduction. (40 § 3-109.2)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
FINANCE
SENATE COMMITTEE - DO PASS 02/11/97
* SB 43 (Long/Roach) - EMPLOYMENT SECURITY. Modifies the Oklahoma Employment Security Act; Section 13 modifies confidentiality requirements to permit the release of information required to identify economic trends to the OU Center for Economic and Management Research; requires confidentiality; permits OU to release aggregated data, provided such aggregation meets disclosure requirements of the Employment Security Commission. (40 § 4-508)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
BUSINESS & LABOR
TITLE STRICKEN 02/10/97
SENATE COMMITTEE - DO PASS AS AMENDED 02/10/97
* SB 48 (Robinson/Deutschendorf) - TELEMEDICINE. Creates the "Oklahoma Telemedicine Act"; prohibits health care service plans, disability insurer programs, workers' compensation programs and state Medicaid managed care program contracts from requiring person-to-person contact between a health care practitioner and patient for services that a health care practitioner determines to be appropriately provided by means of telemedicine; requires a health care practitioner who is in physical contact with a patient, prior to the delivery of health care via telemedicine, to have the ultimate authority over the care of the patient and to obtain informed consent from the patient; specifies procedure for such consent. (36 § 6801)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
APPROPRIATIONS
SENATE COMMITTEE - COM SUB DO PASS 02/12/97
* SB 58 (Robinson) - UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS. Clarifies language relating to operation and licensing of the University Hospitals. (63 § 3205)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
RULES
* SB 60 (Robinson/Settle) - SMOKING. Adds state- and local-government-owned or operated facilities to the list of facilities in which all smoking may be prohibited. (63 § 1-1523)
SENATE COMMITTEE - DO PASS 02/06/97
AMENDMENT FAILED - SENATE 02/17/97
(13 AYE / 33 NAY / 0 ABSENT / 2 EXCUSED / 0 NOT VOTING)
BILL PASSED - SENATE 02/17/97
(42 AYE / 4 NAY / 0 ABSENT / 2 EXCUSED / 0 NOT VOTING)
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/19/97
COMMERCE, INDUSTRY & LABOR
* SB 73 (Harrison/Askins) - OETA. Changes the termination date of several entities, including the Oklahoma Educational Television Authority to July 1, 2002. (74 § 3903)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
SUNSET REVIEW
SENATE COMMITTEE - DO PASS 02/12/97
* SB 78 (Dickerson/Dunegan) - PURCHASING. This is a shell bill relating to acquisitions excluded from Central Purchasing. The committee substitute relates to purchasing pertaining to the Department of Transportation and the Securities Department. (74 § 85.12)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
RULES
COMMITTEE REASSIGNMENT 02/05/97
GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS
SENATE COMMITTEE - COM SUB DO PASS 02/12/97
GENERAL ORDER - SENATE 02/12/97
* SB 80 (Snyder/Paulk) - WORKERS' COMP. Permits an employer to elect not to secure workers' compensation insurance coverage for employees; provides that an employer who elects not to secure workers' compensation shall not be subject to the provisions of the Workers' Compensation Act, but is required to provide equivalent benefits for occupational or job-related injuries or occupational diseases. (85 § 61.3)
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
JUDICIARY
TITLE STRICKEN 02/18/97
SENATE COMMITTEE - DO PASS AS AMENDED 02/18/97
GENERAL ORDER - SENATE 02/18/97
* SB 87 (Leftwich/Glover) - HEALTH INSURANCE. Modifies the requirement for comprehensive health services to provide that, with respect to chiropractic services, such covered services shall be provided on a referral basis within the network at the request of an enrollee who has a condition of an orthopedic or neurological nature if a referral is necessitated in the judgment of the primary care physician and treatment for the condition falls within the licensed scope of practice of a chiropractic physician. (63 § 2505)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
BUSINESS & LABOR
SENATE COMMITTEE - DO PASS 02/10/97
* SB 90 (Dickerson/Stites) - TRAVEL. Permits reimbursement of local transportation expenses for state officers and employees who choose to acquire less expensive lodging at an alternative public lodging place; limits such reimbursement to the difference between the cost of the designated lodging and the cost of the optional lodging. (74 § 500.9)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
APPROPRIATIONS
TITLE STRICKEN 02/12/97
SENATE COMMITTEE - DO PASS AS AMENDED 02/12/97
* SB 101 (Haney/Hamilton) - ROBERT S. KERR MUSEUM. Authorizes the Historical Society to enter into an agreement to operate and manage the Robert S. Kerr Museum on the grounds of the Kerr Conference Center.
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
APPROPRIATIONS
DIRECT TO CALENDAR 02/04/97
TITLE STRICKEN 02/12/97
BILL PASSED - SENATE 02/12/97
(47 AYE / 0 NAY / 0 ABSENT / 1 EXCUSED / 0 NOT VOTING)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/13/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED DIRECT TO CALENDAR 02/17/97
* SB 103 (Haney/Hamilton) - APPROPRIATIONS. Appropriates to the Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science and Technology.
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
APPROPRIATIONS
DIRECT TO CALENDAR 02/04/97
TITLE STRICKEN 02/12/97
BILL PASSED - SENATE 02/12/97
(44 AYE / 3 NAY / 0 ABSENT / 1 EXCUSED / 0 NOT VOTING)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/13/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED DIRECT TO CALENDAR 02/17/97
* SB 110 (Haney/Hamilton) - APPROPRIATIONS. Appropriates to the State Regents and the Physician Manpower Training Commission; states legislative intent that certain funds be allocated for general operating budgets of the institutions, campus expansion, OHLAP, OTAG, National Guard Fee Waiver program, the Section 13 Offset Program, and the general operating budget of the administrative offices of the State Regents.
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
APPROPRIATIONS
DIRECT TO CALENDAR 02/04/97
TITLE STRICKEN 02/12/97
BILL PASSED - SENATE 02/12/97
(46 AYE / 0 NAY / 0 ABSENT / 2 EXCUSED / 0 NOT VOTING)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/13/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED DIRECT TO CALENDAR 02/17/97
* SB 122 (Haney/Hamilton) - OKLAHOMA CENTER FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (OCAST). This is a shell bill specifying budgetary limitations for the Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science and Technology (OCAST).
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
APPROPRIATIONS
DIRECT TO CALENDAR 02/04/97
TITLE STRICKEN 02/12/97
BILL PASSED - SENATE 02/12/97
(47 AYE / 0 NAY / 0 ABSENT / 1 EXCUSED / 0 NOT VOTING)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/13/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED DIRECT TO CALENDAR 02/17/97
* SB 143 (Haney/Hamilton) - STATE REGENTS. This is a shell bill relating to the powers of the State Regents.
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
APPROPRIATIONS
DIRECT TO CALENDAR 02/04/97
TITLE STRICKEN 02/12/97
BILL PASSED - SENATE 02/12/97
(47 AYE / 0 NAY / 0 ABSENT / 1 EXCUSED / 0 NOT VOTING)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/13/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED DIRECT TO CALENDAR 02/17/97
* SB 144 (Haney/Hamilton) - PHYSICIAN MANPOWER TRAINING. Specifies budgetary limitations for the Physician Manpower Training Commission
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
APPROPRIATIONS
DIRECT TO CALENDAR 02/04/97
TITLE STRICKEN 02/12/97
BILL PASSED - SENATE 02/12/97
(47 AYE / 0 NAY / 0 ABSENT / 1 EXCUSED / 0 NOT VOTING)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/13/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED DIRECT TO CALENDAR 02/17/97
* SB 160 (Haney/Hamilton) - APPROPRIATIONS. Appropriates to various entities, including the State Regents, the Physician Manpower Training Commission, OCAST, the Teacher Preparation Commission, and the University Hospitals Authority.
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
APPROPRIATIONS
TITLE STRICKEN 02/19/97
SENATE COMMITTEE - DO PASS AS AMENDED 02/19/97
GENERAL ORDER - SENATE 02/19/97
* SB 174 (Haney/Hamilton) - EMPLOYEE BENEFITS. This is a shell bill relating to the Oklahoma State Employees Benefits Act. (74 § 1361)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
APPROPRIATIONS
TITLE STRICKEN 02/19/97
SENATE COMMITTEE - DO PASS 02/19/97
GENERAL ORDER - SENATE 02/19/97
* SB 181 (Monson/Roberts) - RETIREMENT. This is a shell bill relating to definitions in the Teachers' Retirement System of Oklahoma (OTRS). (70 § 17-101)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
APPROPRIATIONS
TITLE STRICKEN 02/12/97
SENATE COMMITTEE - DO PASS AS AMENDED 02/12/97
* SB 182 (Monson) - RETIREMENT. This is a shell bill relating to the OTRS. (70 § 17-101)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
APPROPRIATIONS
TITLE STRICKEN 02/12/97
SENATE COMMITTEE - DO PASS AS AMENDED 02/12/97
* SB 183 (Monson/Roberts) - RETIREMENT. Clarifies language relating to the OTRS. (70 § 17-101.1)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
APPROPRIATIONS
TITLE STRICKEN 02/12/97
SENATE COMMITTEE - DO PASS AS AMENDED 02/12/97
* SB 193 (Hendrick/Cox) - HEALTH INSURANCE. Adds definitions to the Health Insurance High Risk Pool Act; provides for coverage under the High Risk Pool Act for federally defined eligible individuals. The committee substitute also modifies the Long-Term Care Insurance Act. (36 § 6532)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
JUDICIARY
SENATE COMMITTEE - COM SUB DO PASS 02/11/97
GENERAL ORDER - SENATE 02/11/97
* SB 199 (Leftwich) - FEE WAIVER. Authorizes tuition-free attendance at State System institutions for children of employees of this state who have lost their lives while in the course of employment as a result of the intentional criminal act of another person; requires exhaustion of certain other grants and scholarships. (70 § 3218.7)
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
APPROPRIATIONS
TITLE STRICKEN 02/19/97
SENATE COMMITTEE - DO PASS 02/19/97
GENERAL ORDER - SENATE 02/19/97
* SB 200 (Hendrick) - TEACHER PREPARATION. Provides that the Teacher Preparation Commission shall not require less than 124 semester hours to complete a teacher education degree. (70 § 6-185)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
EDUCATION
* SB 202 (Roberts/Hager) - TEACHER PREPARATION. Provides that, subject to availability of funds, the Teacher Preparation Commission shall have authority to establish a program to assist teachers seeking National Board Certification. (70 § 6-203)
SENATE COMMITTEE - DO PASS 02/10/97
TITLE STRICKEN 02/17/97
BILL AND EMERGENCY PASSED - SENATE 02/17/97
(46 AYE / 0 NAY / 0 ABSENT / 2 EXCUSED / 0 NOT VOTING)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/18/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/19/97
EDUCATION
* SB 216 (Maddox/Kinnamon) - ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES. Creates the "Oklahoma Regulatory Review Act"; requires state agencies to review their rules and regulations by Dec. 31, 1998; requires that regulations be limited to those demonstrably necessary and carefully tailored to fulfill specific, legitimate public health, safety or other public protection objectives; provides that on or after Sept. 1, 1999, any person may petition any agency to repeal, rescind, amend or otherwise modify any regulation affecting a business or profession within that agency's jurisdiction; provides that within 90 days of the filing of the petition, the agency shall either take the action petitioned for or state the basis for concluding that the regulation is in compliance with this act. (75 § 401)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
DEREGULATION
SENATE COMMITTEE - DO PASS 02/17/97
GENERAL ORDER - SENATE 02/17/97
* SB 217 (Hendrick/Vaughn) - ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES. Requires that agency rules state a prospective effective date, or in the absence of such, shall only be effective on and after the date of promulgation; requires agencies to notify affected parties of any intent to make a different interpretation, implementation or application of a statute or rule and afford the parties the opportunity to contest the change within 10 days and, if the change is so contested, promulgate a new rule pursuant to the Administrative Procedures Act to put the change into effect. (75 § 308.2)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS
SENATE COMMITTEE - DO PASS 02/19/97
GENERAL ORDER - SENATE 02/19/97
* SB 218 (Dickerson/Paulk) - PAYROLL DEDUCTION/EMPLOYEE ASSOCIATIONS. Authorizes payroll deduction for membership dues or contributions to its tax-exempt foundation in the Oklahoma Public Employees Association or any other statewide association limited to state employee membership with a minimum membership of 1,000 dues-paying members. (62 § 7.10)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
APPROPRIATIONS
SENATE COMMITTEE - DO PASS 02/12/97
* SB 232 (Monson) - EMPLOYEE BENEFITS. Clarifies language relating to the Oklahoma State Employees Benefits Council. (74 § 1365)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
RULES
* SB 240 (Milacek) - WORKERS' COMPENSATION. Allows employers to elect not to secure workers' compensation for employees; requires such employers to provide equivalent benefits for workers. (85 § 61.3)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
JUDICIARY
* SB 247 (Monson) - EMPLOYEE BENEFITS. Requires the Employee Benefits Council to act in accordance with the Open Meeting Act and the Open Records Act; authorizes the Council to procure insurance indemnifying Council members from personal loss or accountability from liability resulting from a member's action or inaction as a member of the council. (74 § 1362)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
APPROPRIATIONS
SENATE COMMITTEE - DO PASS 02/19/97
GENERAL ORDER - SENATE 02/19/97
* SB 248 (Monson/Voskuhl) - HEALTH INSURANCE. Provides that in selecting health maintenance organizations, the Employee Benefits Council shall consider plan characteristics, provider network, quality of care, geographic coverage and access and price. The committee substitute modifies duties of the State Employees Benefits Council to require that data provided from the State and Education Employees Group Insurance Plan and health maintenance organizations (HMOs) include the current health plan employer data and information set (HEDIS); modifies procedures for rejection of bids by or restriction of enrollment in participating HMOs. (74 § 1365)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
APPROPRIATIONS
SENATE COMMITTEE - COM SUB DO PASS 02/12/97
* SB 249 (Monson/Laura Boyd) - HEALTH/SAFETY. Provides that the Oklahoma Wellness Council may provide programs to state agencies for quarterly health and safety training as required by the Department of Labor. (74 § 1367)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
APPROPRIATIONS
SENATE COMMITTEE - COM SUB DO PASS 02/12/97
* SB 254 (Helton) - HEALTH INSURANCE. Creates the "Preferred Provider Organizations Act"; states purpose to encourage health care cost containment while preserving quality of care by allowing health care insurers to create preferred provider organizations and by establishing minimum standards for preferred provider organizations and the accident and health insurance policies associated with those organizations; outlines requirements for preferred provider organizations; requires health care insurers to file certain information with the state insurance commissioner; requires policies which provide incentives for covered persons to use preferred provider services to contain certain provisions; prohibits discrimination. (36 § 6057.1)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
RULES
* SB 262 (Herbert) - EMPLOYEE DISCOUNT. Provides that all full-time state employees shall receive a 10-percent discount on food and lodging at state-owned parks and lodges. (74 § 1807.1)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
APPROPRIATIONS
* SB 273 (Horner) - OKLAHOMA HIGHER LEARNING ACCESS PROGRAM (OHLAP). Authorizes the State Regents to award the Oklahoma Higher Learning Access Program (OHLAP) benefits for courses of post-secondary units taken more than five years after a student's first semester of post-secondary enrollment only in hardship circumstances; provides that no program participant may receive benefits beyond a cumulative time period of five years; authorizes the Regents to establish a maximum limit on the number of courses or other post-secondary units to which program benefits will apply; authorizes the Regents to process student agreements and verify compliance with the agreements. (70 § 2604)
SENATE COMMITTEE - DO PASS 02/10/97
BILL AND EMERGENCY PASSED - SENATE 02/12/97
(43 AYE / 0 NAY / 0 ABSENT / 5 EXCUSED / 0 NOT VOTING)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/13/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/17/97
EDUCATION
* SB 274 (Monson/Eddins) - HEALTH INSURANCE. Requires individual and group health insurance and health benefit plans to include coverage for severe mental illness equal to coverage for other physical diseases and disorders; provides exception for policies that provide coverage for a specified disease or other limited benefit coverage or groups with 25 or fewer employees; provides for a five-year phase-in for certain disorders identified as severe, biologically based mental illness and Axis I diagnoses, or the "walking wounded." The committee amendment changes 25 to 50 fewer employees and deletes language pertaining to a five-year phase-in; adds that the Legislature encourages the State and Education Employees Group Insurance Board to comply with the provisions of this act with regard to the state insurance plan. (36 § 6060.10)
SENATE COMMITTEE - DO PASS AS AMENDED 02/06/97
FLOOR AMENDMENT 02/17/97
BILL PASSED - SENATE 02/17/97
(41 AYE / 5 NAY / 0 ABSENT / 2 EXCUSED / 0 NOT VOTING)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/18/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/19/97
INSURANCE
* SB 277 (Cain) - HEALTH INSURANCE. Requires health benefit plans that provide benefits for the dependents of an insured individual to provide coverage for each child of the insured, from birth through the date such child is 18 years of age, for immunizations required for children by the State Board of Health; prohibits such benefits from being subject to a deductible, co-payment or coinsurance requirement. (36 § 6060.4)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
HUMAN RESOURCES
SENATE COMMITTEE - DO PASS 02/06/97
* SB 280 (Long) - HEALTH INSURANCE. The committee substitute provides that a health maintenance organization or prepaid health plan shall be deemed in noncompliance and shall not be relicensed by the State Insurance Department if its application for license renewal, evidence of coverage, standards and procedures for the selection of providers or any other documents filed with the department contain definitions of words or terms that are contrary to or inconsistent with the definitions of words or terms appearing in the department's rules; prohibits such entities form prohibiting or restricting a primary care physician from referring a patient to a specialist within the network if such referral is deemed medically necessary in the judgment of the primary care physician; requires such entities to provide comprehensive health services in a manner that is reasonably geographically convenient to residents of the service area for which it seeks a license. (63 § 2504)
SENATE COMMITTEE - COM SUB DO PASS 02/19/97
* SB 282 (Gustafson) - WORKERS' COMPENSATION. Clarifies language relating to the State Insurance Fund. (85 § 131)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
RULES
* SB 284 (Maddox) - WORKERS' COMPENSATION. Clarifies language relating to the State Insurance Fund. (85 § 131)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
RULES
* SB 298 (Maddox) - AUTOMATED TELEPHONE SYSTEM. Requires that all agencies have a person available at all times in the agency's reception area to answer telephone calls during normal business hours; prohibits a state agency from using a mechanical answering device for answering phone calls during regular hours of operation. (74 § 3306)
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
APPROPRIATIONS
TITLE STRICKEN 02/12/97
SENATE COMMITTEE - DO PASS AS AMENDED 02/19/97
GENERAL ORDER - SENATE 02/19/97
* SB 302 (Gustafson) - RIGHT TO WORK. Declares public policy that the right to work not be subject to undue restraint or coercion; provides that the right to work shall not be infringed or restricted in any way based on membership in, affiliation with or financial support of a labor organization or on refusal to join, affiliate with or financially or otherwise support a labor organization. (40 § 470)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
BUSINESS & LABOR
* SB 315 (Easley/Beutler) - LEAD-BASED PAINT. Modifies definition section in the Lead-based Paint Management Act; adds "child-occupied facility" to definitions; requires certification of lead-based paint construction contractors, inspectors and hazard evaluators and specialists performing or offering to perform lead-based paint services on target housing or child-occupied facilities. (27A § 2-12-102)
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
HUMAN RESOURCES:
SENATE COMMITTEE - DO PASS 02/13/97
GENERAL ORDER - SENATE 02/13/97
* SB 316 (Easley) - CONSERVATION DIVISION EMPLOYEES. Modifies education and experience requirements for certain personnel in the Corporation Commission's Conservation Division. (52 § 149)
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
ENERGY, ENV. RES. & REG AFFAIR
SENATE COMMITTEE - DO PASS 02/20/97
GENERAL ORDER - SENATE 02/20/97
* SB 327 (Taylor) - HEALTH INSURANCE. Modifies sections relating to the Insurance Code; modifies time periods for acknowledging receipt of certain notification, advising claimant of acceptance or denial of a claim, extending deadlines, completing investigation and giving a claimant certain notice; modifies the age of full-time student dependent qualifying for certain coverage. (18 § 2002)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
JUDICIARY
TITLE STRICKEN 02/18/97
SENATE COMMITTEE - COM SUB DO PASS 02/18/97
* SB 330 (Long) - TEMPORARY EMPLOYEES. Authorizes the governor, upon declaration of financial emergency, to freeze the awarding of professional services contracts; directs the Office of Personnel Management to establish and operate a temporary employment agency for the purpose of supplying temporary employees to state agencies. (74 § 340-2.14)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS
* SB 336 (Roberts/Begley) - TELECOMMUNICATIONS. Creates the Technology Endowment Fund for the State Board of Education to encourage use of the state's telecommunications network and to aid in the development of cooperative projects between schools and businesses. (70 § 1210.556)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
EDUCATION
TITLE STRICKEN 02/17/97
SENATE COMMITTEE - DO PASS AS AMENDED 02/17/97
GENERAL ORDER - SENATE 02/17/97
* SB 343 (Martin) - ENGLISH AS COMMON LANGUAGE. Recognizes English as the common language of this state and requires its use in public records and transactions, with certain exceptions, including the instruction in foreign language courses and instruction designed to aid students with limited English proficiency in a timely transition and integration into the general education system. (25 § 300)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
APPROPRIATIONS
* SB 346 (Martin) - INCOME TAX CREDIT/GRADUATES. Provides for a state income tax credit for employers hiring full-time Oklahoma residents who have graduated or received a degree from a four-year public Oklahoma college or university within one year prior to employment and have worked at least one full year for the eligible employer. (68 § 2357.26)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
FINANCE
* SB 348 (Ford) - AD VALOREM TAX. For purposes of exemption from ad valorem taxation, provides that upon expiration of the five-year period during which a manufacturing facility was exempt from the levy of ad valorem taxes, the valuation of the facility shall not be changed except to reflect changes in the fair cash value, estimated at the price it would bring at a fair voluntary sale, from the last year of the five-year period to the year of expiration. The committee substitute provides that, during the first five tax years following expiration of the five-year period during which a manufacturing facility was exempt from ad valorem taxes, the fair cash value of the facility shall be presumed not to have decreased from the fair cash value of the preceding tax year, unless it is shown by a preponderance of the evidence that the fair cash value of the facility has decreased. (68 § 2902)
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
FINANCE
TITLE STRICKEN 02/18/97
SENATE COMMITTEE - COM SUB DO PASS 02/18/97
GENERAL ORDER - SENATE 02/18/97
* SB 354 (Stipe) - RETIREMENT. Allows continuation of additional life insurance after retirement for members of the state retirement systems; requires that the rate for additional benefits be paid at an actuarially adjusted rate. (74 § 1316.1)
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
APPROPRIATIONS
TITLE STRICKEN 02/19/97
SENATE COMMITTEE - DO PASS AS AMENDED 02/19/97
GENERAL ORDER - SENATE 02/19/97
* SB 360 (Smith/Steidley) - TRAVEL. Authorizes state employees traveling outside the state on official business to use alternate forms of transportation; prohibits reimbursement from exceeding the normal charge for the type of transportation used, but in no instance shall reimbursement for transportation used in lieu of commercial airplane exceed the cost of coach class air fare. (74 § 500.11)
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
APPROPRIATIONS
TITLE STRICKEN 02/12/97
SENATE COMMITTEE - DO PASS AS AMENDED 02/12/97
* SB 362 (Cain/Seikel) - SURPLUS EQUIPMENT. Authorizes state departments, institutions, and agencies to dispose of obsolete or surplus equipment by transfer to a public school district without compensation . (62 § 120.1)
SENATE COMMITTEE - DO PASS 02/10/97
BILL PASSED - SENATE 02/17/97
(45 AYE / 0 NAY / 0 ABSENT / 3 EXCUSED / 0 NOT VOTING)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/18/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/19/97
GOVT OPS & AGENCY OVERSIGHT
* SB 376 (Taylor) - ENTRY-YEAR/STUDENT TEACHER. Adds "entry-year teacher" and "student teacher" to definitions relating to positions in school systems. (70 § 1-116)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
RULES
* SB 382 (Taylor) - WORKERS' COMPENSATION. Clarifies language relating to authorization of workers' compensation claims. (85 § 2c
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
RULES)
* SB 389 (Weedn/Steidley) - CONSTRUCTION/CONTRACTS. Provides that a purchase order issued by a county or political subdivision to an architect, contractor, engineer or supplier of materials may include notice to the vendor that submission of an invoice or acceptance of payment pursuant to the purchase constitutes a statement by the vendor that the invoice and work meet certain requirements. (74 § 3109)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
JUDICIARY
SENATE COMMITTEE - DO PASS AS AMENDED 02/11/97
* SB 398 (Roberts/Begley) - TEACHER/TECHNOLOGY TRAINING. Modifies teacher training requirements to require that technology training be included in professional development institutes. (70 § 6-200)
SENATE COMMITTEE - DO PASS 02/10/97
BILL AND EMERGENCY PASSED - SENATE 02/19/97
(46 AYE / 0 NAY / 0 ABSENT / 2 EXCUSED / 0 NOT VOTING)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/20/97
* SB 405 (Easley) - AD VALOREM TAX. Provides that the percentage of fair cash value for real and personal property of railroads, air carriers and public service corporations required by the Oklahoma Constitution to be taxable shall be the percentage at which it was assessed on Jan. 1, 1996. (68 § 2847)
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
FINANCE
* SB 410 (Herbert) - HEALTH SERVICES/MEDICAL STUDENTS. Relates to expansion of health care facilities; provides that when an application is made by a facility for a certificate of need to construct, expand or modernize a health care facility, acquire major medical equipment or add services, the application should be considered in terms of its impact on existing and proposed institutional training programs for doctors at the student, internship and residency training levels. (63 § 2656.11)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
HUMAN RESOURCES
* SB 411 (Maddox) - WORKERS' COMP. Permits employers subject to provisions of the Workers' Compensation Act to participate in any claim for compensation or benefits commenced by a claimant, wherein the employer is named as a party or joined as a party; specifies rights of such employers; provides that failure on the part of a self-insured employer, group self-insurance association or an insurance carrier to implement certain requirements for workplace safety shall constitute grounds for revocation by the administrator of the Workers' Compensation Court of the employer's self-insurance permit or approval of the association's self-insurance application. (85 § 26)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
JUDICIARY
* SB 412 (Brown) - HEALTH INSURANCE. Modifies conditions under which a health benefit plan that provides maternity benefits may provide coverage for a shorter length of hospital inpatient stay for services related to maternity and newborn infant care; requires that the determination that a mother and a newborn infant meet certain medical criteria be made by an attending physician. (36 § 6060.3)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
HUMAN RESOURCES
* SB 416 (Williams) - TEACHER PREPARATION. Adds to the definitions in the Teacher Preparation Act "para-teacher," defined as a person who does not hold a valid license to teach or has not been issued a certificate by the Board of Education who may perform or assist a classroom teacher in the performance of a homeroom duty, extracurricular activities involving school functions or any other non-instructional duty the board may prescribe. (70 § 6-182)
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
EDUCATION
TITLE STRICKEN 02/17/97
SENATE COMMITTEE - COM SUB DO PASS 02/17/97
GENERAL ORDER - SENATE 02/17/97
* SB 417 (Williams) - STUDENT LOANS. Permits the exchange of confidential information, indexed by Social Security number, between state government entities and any official, employee or agent of the State Regents, where the information is required for use in the default prevention efforts or collection of defaulted student loans guaranteed by the Regents; requires confidentiality; provides immunity from civil or criminal liability for any error or omission in the disclosure of such information; provides that, when the person to be in default on a student loan is a licensed attorney, the Regents may report the matter to the Oklahoma Bar Association for appropriate license suspension action in accordance with the Rules of Professional Conduct. (70 § 623)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
JUDICIARY
* SB 420 (Williams/Steidley) - OSU COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE/CREDITS. Clarifies language relating to transferring credits earned by students in a State System institution. The committee substitute changes the name of the Oklahoma College of Osteopathic Medicine and Surgery to the Oklahoma State University College of Osteopathic Medicine. (70 § 697.3)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
COMMITTEE REASSIGNMENT 02/05/97
EDUCATION
SENATE COMMITTEE - COM SUB DO PASS 02/10/97
* SB 422 (Williams) - TEACHER CERTIFICATION. Clarifies language relating to alternative placement teaching certificates. (70 § 6-122.3)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
RULES
* SB 435 (Taylor) - NURSES. Designates certain sections as the "Oklahoma Nursing Practice Act" and the "Oklahoma Nurse Aide Training and Certification Act", respectively; directs the Board of Nursing to promulgate and enforce rules governing persons practicing or desiring to practice as a certified nurse aide or as a nurse aide trainee. (59 § 567.1)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
HUMAN RESOURCES
* SB 444 (Laughlin) - RIGHT TO WORK. Creates the "Oklahoma Right to Work Act"; declares public policy that the right to work not be subject to undue restraint or coercion; provides that the right to work shall not be infringed or restricted in any way based on membership in, affiliation with or financial or other support of a labor organization or on refusal to join, affiliate with or financially or otherwise support a labor organization; provides that no person shall be required, as a condition of employment or continued employment, to resign or refrain from voluntary membership in or dues payment to a labor organization, be a member of or pay dues to such an organization, pay to any third party an equivalent amount in lieu of dues or be recommended, approved, referred or cleared by or through a labor organization, except where preempted by federal law. (40 § 470)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
BUSINESS & LABOR
* SB 448 (Robinson/Stanley) - DENTISTS. Changes the name of the Board of Governors of the Registered Dentists of Oklahoma to the Board of Dentistry; modifies licensure and examination provisions for permanent and temporary licensure of in-state and out-of-state dental hygienist applicants; requires that out-of-state applicants meet certain standards; modifies provisions relating to issuance of faculty permits to certain dentists. (25 § 307.1)
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
SMALL BUSINESS
TITLE STRICKEN 02/13/97
SENATE COMMITTEE - DO PASS AS AMENDED 02/13/97
GENERAL ORDER - SENATE 02/13/97
* SB 451 (Weedn) - DISABILITY INSURANCE. Expands eligibility for participation in the disability insurance program of the State and Education Employees Group Insurance Board to include education and other eligible participating employees under the State and Education Employees Group Insurance Act. (74 § 1332)
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
APPROPRIATIONS
SENATE COMMITTEE - COM SUB DO PASS 02/19/97
GENERAL ORDER - SENATE 02/19/97
* SB 454 (Robinson) - UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS. This is a shell bill relating to agreements and undertakings of the University Hospitals Authority. (63 § 3210)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
RULES
* SB 473 (Milacek) - RETIREMENT. Deletes the cap on post-retirement earnings for former public school employees. (70 § 17-116.10)
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
APPROPRIATIONS
SENATE COMMITTEE - COM SUB DO PASS 02/19/97
GENERAL ORDER - SENATE 02/19/97
* SB 496 (Henry) - OPEN MEETING. Permits public bodies to hold executive sessions to discuss the progress of a pending investigation dealing with a public official. (25 § 307)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
VETERANS, MIL. AFF. & PUB. SAF
SENATE COMMITTEE - DO PASS FAILED 02/17/97
* SB 514 (Long/Voskuhl) - DENTAL HYGIENISTS. Defines practice of dental hygiene; defines "dental hygienist" as an individual who has fulfilled the educational requirements and is a graduate from an institution of higher education whose dental hygiene educational program has a minimum of two academic years of dental hygiene curriculum and is accredited by the Commission on Dental Accreditation; authorizes dental hygienists to practice in dental offices, health service facilities and public or private schools with the authorization of a licensed dentist. (59 § 328.3)
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
BUSINESS & LABOR
SENATE COMMITTEE - DO PASS 02/17/97
GENERAL ORDER - SENATE 02/17/97
* SB 517 (Helton) - TECHNICIANS/LICENSURE. Provides for licensure of plumbing technicians and mechanical technicians. (59 § 1003)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
BUSINESS & LABOR
* SB 522 (Helton) - WORKERS' COMP. Clarifies language relating to criminal penalties for failure to provide workers' compensation. (85 § 631.3)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
RULES
* SB 523 (Helton/Askins) - CAMPUS POLICE. Authorizes peace officers making contact with a person who possesses a weapon to take the weapon if there is probable cause to believe the person who has possession of the weapon is a convicted felon or an adjudicated delinquent, is under the influenced of alcohol, drugs or other intoxicating substance, is mentally or emotionally unbalanced or disturbed, is suicidal or is involved in an act of or attempt of domestic abuse. (21 § 1289.12)
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
VETERANS, MIL. AFF. & PUB. SAF
TITLE STRICKEN 02/17/97
SENATE COMMITTEE - DO PASS AS AMENDED 02/17/97
GENERAL ORDER - SENATE 02/17/97
* SB 529 (Helton) - CAMPUS POLICE. Modifies the Campus Security Act; requires certification of campus police officers by the Council on Law Enforcement Education and Training (CLEET); authorizes expansion of the jurisdiction of campus police officers by agreement with the local municipal law enforcement agency or the sheriff of the county wherein the campus is located; provides that the jurisdiction of any appointed campus police or juvenile officer commissioned by the Department of Human Services shall be limited to that jurisdiction of property controlled by the Department unless an agreement has been made with a local municipal law enforcement agency or the sheriff. (74 § 360.15)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
VETERANS, MIL. AFF. & PUB. SAF
SENATE COMMITTEE - DO PASS FAILED 02/17/97
* SB 533 (Williams) - RETIREMENT. Increases from five to 10 years the amount of out-of-state service credit a teacher may receive upon becoming a member of the OTRS. (70 § 17-104)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
APPROPRIATIONS
* SB 535 (Long) - BENEFITS. Modifies flexible benefit allowance available for purchase of benefits by state employees; provides that the allowance shall amount to a sliding-scale percentage of insurance premium cost based upon the annual salary of the employee. (74 § 1370)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
APPROPRIATIONS
* SB 536 (Stipe) - HEALTH INSURANCE. Requires that health insurance premiums for active state employees and retirees under age 65 be set at the same amount by the State and Education Employees Group Insurance Board; provides that a retired employee, other than an education employee, who elects to continue the health insurance plan shall receive an allowance equal to the least expensive health care option authorized by the State Employees Benefits Act, to cover a retiree under 65 years of age; provides that if a retiree elects a total benefits package whose total price is less than his or her allowance, the retiree shall receive any excess allowance as taxable compensation, which will be paid in substantially equal amounts over each benefit pay period over the plan year; requires the board to offer health, dental, disability, and life coverage to all participants and their dependents; requires the board to offer a high-deductible health benefit plan. (74 § 1306)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
APPROPRIATIONS
SUBCOMMITTEE - DO PASS FAIL 02/18/97
* SB 538 (Horner) - HEALTH INSURANCE. Prohibits health care insurers from prohibiting or limiting licensed physicians willing to accept the operating terms and conditions of a health benefit plan, its schedule of fees, covered expenses, utilization regulations and quality standards, from participating in the plan. (36 § 6065)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
HUMAN RESOURCES
* SB 539 (Monson) - REDUCTION IN FORCE. Provides that if an agency has posted a reduction-in-force implementation schedule, all employees in positions covered in the plan and any within the displacement limits established by the plan shall be eligible for priority reemployment consideration, with certain exceptions; requires all state entities to certify whether or not a reduction-in-force is due to reduced funding. (74 § 840-2.27)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
APPROPRIATIONS
TITLE STRICKEN 02/19/97
SENATE COMMITTEE - DO PASS 02/19/97
GENERAL ORDER - SENATE 02/19/97
* SB 541 (Hobson) - SCHOOL LAND FUNDS. This is a shell bill relating to school land funds. (70 § 3904)
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
RULES
COMMITTEE REASSIGNMENT 02/05/97
APPROPRIATIONS
SENATE COMMITTEE - DO PASS 02/19/97
GENERAL ORDER - SENATE 02/19/97
* SB 549 (Stipe) - PUBLIC BIDDING. Clarifies language relating to the "Public Competitive Bidding Act". (61 § 101)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
RULES
* SB 551 (Monson) - HEALTH INSURANCE. Requires the State and Education Employees Group Insurance Board to establish a defined percentage of an eligible employee's premium for dependent coverage on the health insurance plan, dental insurance plan, or by any available health maintenance organization (HMO) which shall be paid by the state through monies appropriated by the Legislature. (74 § 1309)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
APPROPRIATIONS
* SB 552 (Herbert) - HEALTH INSURANCE. Increases from misdemeanor to felony the crime of fraud as it relates to the State and Education Employees Group Insurance Act. (74 § 1323)
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
APPROPRIATIONS
SENATE COMMITTEE - COM SUB DO PASS 02/19/97
GENERAL ORDER - SENATE 02/19/97
* SB 561 (Leftwich) - PURCHASING/SERVICE CONTRACTS. This is a shell bill relating to Central Purchasing and professional services contracts. (74 § 85.41)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
RULES
SENATE COMMITTEE - DO PASS FAILED 02/18/97
* SB 562 (Hendrick) - WORKERS' COMPENSATION. For workers' compensation purposes, provides that no respondent employer or insurance carrier shall be liable for temporary total disability payments for the period of time for which an employee was paid full wages. (85 § 41.1)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
JUDICIARY'
* SB 571 (Gustafson/Ramsey) - INCOME TAX CREDIT. Creates the "Small Business Development Act of 1997"; allows an income tax credit for amounts paid by a small business for training of eligible employees; sets credit at 50 percent of the amount paid to an accredited education provider. (68 § 2357.33)
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
FINANCE
TITLE STRICKEN 02/18/97
SENATE COMMITTEE - DO PASS AS AMENDED 02/18/97
GENERAL ORDER - SENATE 02/18/97
* SB 577 (Shurden) - WORKERS' COMPENSATION. For workers' compensation purposes, provides that an employee shall be considered disabled if the employee qualifies for Social Security disability benefits. (85 § 17.1)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
JUDICIARY
* SB 589 (Ford) - AD VALOREM TAXES. Provides that on property for which ad valorem taxes are paid under protest and held in escrow, a school district's assessed valuation shall not include the property on which the tax is being protested until the year during which the district receives the proceeds from the taxes. (70 § 18-200.1)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
APPROPRIATIONS
* SB 592 (Williams/Bryant) - TRAILBLAZER SCHOOLS. Creates the "Trailblazer Schools Act"; defines "trailblazer school" as a public school established by contract with a school board to provide learning that will improve student achievement; authorizes school boards to sponsor one or more trailblazer schools; limits such schools to no more than 25 in this state at any one time; requires an applicant seeking to establish a trailblazer school to submit a written proposal to a proposed sponsor in the form and as prescribed by the State Board of Education; authorizes a public school, public body, public or private college or university, private person or private organization to contract with a sponsor to establish a trailblazer school; provides that a sponsor may be any local board of education; requires the State Board to establish standards and requirements for trailblazer schools which ensure compliance with certain criteria. (70 § 3-130)
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
EDUCATION
SENATE COMMITTEE - COM DO PASS SUB 02/17/97
GENERAL ORDER - SENATE 02/17/97
* SB 594 (Hobson) - OHLAP. This is a shell bill relating to the Oklahoma Higher Learning Access Program (OHLAP). (70 § 2602)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
RULES
* SB 616 (Wilcoxson) - INCOME TAX CREDIT. Provides for an income tax credit of $25 per credit hour for courses taken by a certified teacher seeking a master's degree from a certified college or university in an academic course of study other than education, but in a field that the teacher would reasonably be expected to use in the classroom; provides that at least 50 percent of the course work must be in reading or language arts, science, mathematics, social studies or foreign language. (68 § 2357)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
FINANCE
* SB 617 (Robinson) - PUBLIC RECORDS. Authorizes optical imaging of public records for certain purposes. (67 § 301)
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
BUSINESS & LABOR
COMMITTEE REASSIGNMENT 02/05/97
GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS
SENATE COMMITTEE - DO PASS 02/20/97
GENERAL ORDER - SENATE 02/20/97
* SB 634 (Horner) - SURVEILLANCE EQUIPMENT. Makes it unlawful to use any type of surveillance equipment to observe any person in any hotel room, dressing room or other place where a person may be sleeping, bathing or undressing. (21 § 1202)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
JUDICIARY
* SB 640 (Snyder) - HEALTH INSURANCE. Creates the Oklahoma Maintenance Organization Act; provides requirements for certificates; requires provision of list of service providers; requires plans for handling insolvency; allows transfer of group enrollees upon insolvency; requires equity in coverage and rates; prohibits pre-existing conditions in succeeding carrier's contracts; requires certain employers to allow employees option of enrolling in a health maintenance organization; limits amount employer must pay for health benefits; prohibits financial discrimination against health maintenance organization enrollees' allowing adoption of coordination of benefit provisions; requires health maintenance to make certain payments for services. (36 § 2699.1)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
HUMAN RESOURCES
* SB 642 (Taylor) - HEALTH INSURANCE. Requires the State Board of Health to promulgate rules pertaining to managed health care plans including information regarding coverage, benefits, limitations and any exclusion by category of service, provider or physician, prior authorization or other review requirements, financial responsibility of enrollees with regard to coinsurance or non-covered or out-of-plan services and, as applicable, other areas of financial responsibility of the enrollee; requires use of objective criteria and standards of quality for credentialing of physicians and other health care providers; requires minimum standards for the administration and operation of manage health care plans. (63 § 2508.2)
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
HUMAN RESOURCES
TITLE STRICKEN 02/20/97
SENATE COMMITTEE - DO PASS 02/20/97
GENERAL ORDER - SENATE 02/20/97
* SB 658 (Monson) - HEALTH INSURANCE. Adds an annual eye exam to the basic benefits plans of the State and Education Employees Group Insurance Act. (74 § 1371)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
APPROPRIATIONS
* SB 665 (Long) - WORKERS' COMPENSATION. Clarifies language relating to the State Insurance Fund. (85 § 131)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
RULES
* SB 674 (Leftwich) - WORKERS' COMPENSATION. Modifies definition of injury under the Workers' Compensation Act to include respiratory system injury, illness or death, cancer, disease from blood-borne pathogens, and post-traumatic stress syndrome; deletes from the definition injury resultant from stress in excess of that experienced by a person in the conduct of everyday living. (85 § 3)
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
JUDICIARY
SENATE COMMITTEE - COM SUB DO PASS 02/18/97
GENERAL ORDER - SENATE 02/18/97
* SB 677 (Haney) - BENEFITS. Clarifies statutory reference relating to the Oklahoma State Employees Benefits Act. (74 § 1361)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
RULES
* SB 681 (Haney) - BENEFITS. Clarifies statutory reference relating to the Oklahoma State Employees Benefits Act. (74 § 1362)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
RULES
* SB 684 (Williams) - STUDENT ADVISORY BOARDS. Establishes student advisory boards for the A&M Board of Regents, the OU Board of Regents, and the Board of Regents for Oklahoma Colleges; sets membership of student boards; designates a member of the student board to attend each meeting of the respective governing board with privileges to speak. (70 § 3205.7)
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
EDUCATION
SENATE COMMITTEE - DO PASS 02/17/97
GENERAL ORDER - SENATE 02/17/97
* SB 692 (Campbell) - HEALTH INSURANCE. Includes a provision in health insurance policies for female participants to have a choice of gynecologists for both wellness checks and any preventative or post-operative care that is agreed to by the primary care physician. (36 § 6055)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
HUMAN RESOURCES
* SB 697 (Gustafson) - TRAVEL. Allows for reimbursement under the State Travel Reimbursement Act for employees using local transportation between an alternative hotel and the designated hotel or motel, if the cost of the alternative hotel, motel and local transportation does not exceed the single occupancy room rate charged by the designated hotel, motel. (74 § 500.9)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
APPROPRIATIONS
* SB 698 (Dickerson/Paulk) - LEAVE. Allows a state employee who is an elected official of a job-related professional organization to take up to five additional days of leave per year without pay to perform the work required by that official position. (74 § 840-2.25)
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS
SENATE COMMITTEE - DO PASS AS AMENDED 02/19/97
GENERAL ORDER - SENATE 02/19/97
* SB 699 (Dunlap/Bryant) - PRIVATIZATION FUNCTIONS. Creates the Oklahoma Privatization Functions Act; states purpose to set guidelines for privatization of state services and contracts; no such contracts shall be valid unless they comply with the Central Purchasing Act; agencies considering privatization must prepare a comprehensive writing estimate of the costs including all direct and indirect costs of agency employees providing the service; requires independent estimate by Office of State Finance; requires agencies to provide resources to state employees and to consider employee bids for providing the service; allows employee bids to be made as a joint venture; prohibits certain activities and conduct; imposes restrictions on certain employment; requires certification of certain information in writing. (74 § 595.5)
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS
TITLE STRICKEN 02/19/97
SENATE COMMITTEE - DO PASS AS AMENDED 02/19/97
GENERAL ORDER - SENATE 02/19/97
* SB 701 (Muegge) - TRAVEL. Provides that reimbursement for authorized use of a privately owned vehicle for official state business shall be at the maximum amount per mile allowable for federal tax purposes. (74 § 500.4)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
APPROPRIATIONS
* SB 703 (Snyder/Wells) - CONTRACTORS. Prohibits the awarding of a public construction contract to a bidder unless the bid lists each subcontractor who will perform services under the contract; prohibits a successful bidder on a public construction contract from changing any subcontractor without written consent of the governing body of the awarding public agency. (61 § 120.1)
SENATE COMMITTEE - COM SUB DO PASS 02/10/97
BILL AND EMERGENCY PASSED - SENATE 02/12/97
(26 AYE / 19 NAY / 0 ABSENT / 2 EXCUSED / 0 NOT VOTING)
MOTION TO RECONSIDER - SENATE 02/12/97
ENGROSSED - SENATE 02/18/97
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/19/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/20/97
COMMERCE, INDUSTRY & LABOR
* SB 706 (Cain/Seikel) - CHILD SUPPORT/PAYROLL. Requires employers to report to the Child Support Enforcement Division the employment of any person to whom the employer anticipates paying earnings. (40 § 2-802)
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
JUDICIARY
TITLE STRICKEN 02/11/97
SENATE COMMITTEE - DO PASS AS AMENDED 02/11/97
GENERAL ORDER - SENATE 02/11/97
* SB 707 (Williams) - TEACHER PREPARATION. Clarifies language relating to the teacher preparation system. (70 § 6-185)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
RULES
* SB 708 (Williams) - OKLAHOMA TUITION AID GRANTS (OTAG). Clarifies language relating to awarding college tuition aid grants. (70 § 626.7)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
RULES
* SB 713 (Herbert) - BOND OVERSIGHT. Abolishes the Executive Bond Oversight Commission; transfers duties of the state bond advisor to the Office of State Finance; authorizes the State Finance Director to employ a person or firm who shall hold the title of state bond advisor; authorizes the granting or proprietary inducements if the State Finance Director and Legislative Bond Oversight Commission approve a proposal in advance and it furthers the best interest of the state; requires independent approval of financing proposals by the Commission and the State Finance Director. (62 § 695.1)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
BUSINESS & LABOR
* SB 725 (Hobson) - TRAVEL. Clarifies language relating to per diem and other reimbursements for expenses not authorized for state boards and commissions. (74 § 500.36)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
RULES
* SB 730 (Maddox/Askins) - WORKERS' COMPENSATION. This is a comprehensive bill reforming the Workers' Compensation Act. The committee substitute deletes language in the original bill that provided that the term employee would not include any person sentenced for a violation of law to perform community service in lieu of imprisonment, fine or any other penalty set by a court of competent jurisdiction; language outlining the purpose of workers' compensation laws; language limiting permanent total disability awards to five years or until the employee reaches 65 years of age, whichever period is longer; language relating to designation by an employer of a physician to provide a diagnosis and treatment of an injured worker for up to 14 days after receiving notice of the injury, after which the employee could choose another doctor; and language relating to prior authorization except in emergencies and for treatment whose cost totals less than $500. Adds language including cumulative trauma in the definitions of injury and personal injury; provides that no injury which requires surgery will be considered a strain or sprain injury; authorizes the Workers' Compensation Court to waive a penalty of $500 per week for untimely payment of benefits; prohibits a claim for legal services in contested temporary disability cases from exceeding 10 percent of the amount of the award; permits doctors, hospitals and others providing services to sue workers' compensation insurers, rather than the injured employee, when their bills are not paid in a timely manner; increases from 15 days to 30 days the time allowed for an employee to give an employer notification of injury. (85 § 1.1)
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
JUDICIARY
TITLE STRICKEN 02/18/97
SENATE COMMITTEE - COM SUB DO PASS 02/18/97
GENERAL ORDER - SENATE 02/18/97
* SB 740 (Wright) - CHARTER SCHOOLS. Creates the "Oklahoma Charter Schools Act"; defines "charter school" as a public school established by contract with a local board of education or the State Board of Education to provide learning that will improve student achievement; specifies contents of applications for charter schools; allows a public school, public body, public or private college or university, private person or private organization to establish a charter school under contract. (70 § 3-130)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
EDUCATION
* SB 741 (Williams) - PRIVATE COLLEGES/UNIVERSITIES. This is a shell bill relating to accreditation of private educational institutions by the State Regents. (70 § 4103)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
RULES
* SB 743 (Brown) - WELFARE/WORKFORCE. Creates the "Temporary Assistance to Promote Self-sufficiency (TAPS) Program Act"; states purpose to establish a demonstration managed system of employment and related support services which include employment and training and education activities. (56 § 229.1)
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
APPROPRIATIONS
TITLE STRICKEN 02/19/97
SENATE COMMITTEE - COM SUB DO PASS 02/19/97
GENERAL ORDER - SENATE 02/19/97
* SB 746 (Williams/Steidley) - SUPPLEMENTAL FEES. Clarifies language relating to supplementary fees established by the State Regents. (70 § 3218.10)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
EDUCATION
SENATE COMMITTEE - DO PASS 02/10/97
* SB 752 (Campbell) - HEALTH INSURANCE. Requires certain medical benefit plans to allow participants to choose their own gynecologists for both wellness checks and any preventative or post-operative care that is agreed to by the primary care physician. (74 § 1371)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
APPROPRIATIONS
SUBCOMMITTEE - COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE 02/18/97
SUBCOMMITTEE - REPORT PROGRESS 02/18/97
* SB 758 (Gustafson) - EDUCATIONAL INDICATORS. Requires the State Board of Education to provide for school districts to participate in the administration of the National Assessment of Educational Progress; requires the results of the assessment to be included in the summary report of the Oklahoma Educational Indicators Program. (70§ 1210.531)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
EDUCATION
* SB 760 (Williams/Hager) - NATIONAL ASSESSMENT OF EDUCATIONAL PROGRESS. Provides for all public school districts to participate in the administration of the National Assessment of Educational Progress; requires the State Board of Education to make the application for participation of this state by the first deadline after the passage of this act. (70 § 1210.514)
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
EDUCATION
SENATE COMMITTEE - COM SUB DO PASS 02/17/97
GENERAL ORDER - SENATE 02/17/97
SENATE JOINT RESOLUTIONS
* SJR 1 (Long) - RIGHT TO WORK/LEAVE. Proposes a constitutional amendment prohibiting the requirement that a person be a member of a labor organization or pay dues or similar fees to a labor organization in order to be hired or remain employed; provides an option for receiving representation under collective bargaining, upon payment of an assessment equal to no more than 90 percent of the annual "core dues" or a contribution of a like amount to charity; requires employers to provide health insurance, sick leave, and paid vacation to all full- and part-time employees; requires 48 hours' written notice prior to termination an employee. (Art XXIII § 5A)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
BUSINESS & LABOR
HOUSE BILLS
* HB 1008 (Stanley) - STATE VEHICLES/DAMAGE CLAIMS. Modifies exemptions from liability under the Governmental Tort Claims Act relating to work release programs ordered by a court or the Dept. of Corrections; makes such exemption not apply to property damage claims made by individuals not in custody of the department based on accidents involving motor vehicles owned or operated by the state or any state agency. (51 § 155)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
JUDICIARY
HOUSE COMMITTEE - DO PASS 02/19/97
GENERAL ORDER - HOUSE 02/19/97
* HB 1009 (Roach/Mickle) - STATE AIRCRAFT. Provides procedures for use of aircraft owned, leased, or operated by the state; requires implementation of provisions by any state entity that owns, leases or operates an aircraft; requires travel logs; provides procedures and requirements for travel logs. (74 § 500.61) (See HBs 1012, 1019)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
RULES
HOUSE COMMITTEE - COM SUBS DO PASS 02/20/97
GENERAL ORDER - HOUSE 02/20/97
* HB 1011 (Dank) - CHARTER SCHOOLS. Enacts the Oklahoma Charter Schools Act; allows a public school, public body, public or private college or university, private person or private organization to establish a charter school under contract. (70 §§ 3-130/3-142)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
EDUCATION
* HB 1012 (Tim Pope) - STATE AIRCRAFT. Prohibits state-owned or -leased aircraft from being used for travel that includes the attending of any type of political fund raiser. (74 § 500.91) (See HBs 1009, 1019)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
RULES
* HB 1014 (Leist) - ATTORNEY GENERAL OPINIONS. Provides for review of official opinions of the attorney general; authorizes the filing of a petition for judicial review by the person who requested the opinion or any elected state officer authorized to request an opinion; authorizes the reviewing court to stay the enforcement or effect of an opinion; provides that any opinion not issued by the attorney general in office at the time of the request for review must be first reviewable by the sitting attorney general. (74 § 18b-1)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
JUDICIARY
* HB 1017 (Askins) - EMPLOYEE PROTECTION. Creates the "Workplace and Employee Protection Act"; states intent to provide optional remedies against workplace violence to supplement existing remedies and shall not obligate or create a duty on an employer to seek such optional remedies; authorizes an employing entity, on behalf or itself or its employees, agents, contractors or business invitees receiving threats of physical harm, harassment or stalking, to seek relief by filing a petition for a protective order; specifies requirements for filing protective orders. (22 § 70)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
JUDICIARY
* HB 1019 (Hamilton/Rozell) - STATE AIRCRAFT. Provides that state aircraft shall not be used for travel that includes an event sponsored by or promoting a political party or candidate from July 1 through the date of the general election during election years, and from the first day of the filing period through the date of the special election during such times as a special election is necessary to fill a vacant office; prohibits use of such aircraft for family travel or for conducting personal business or for travel that includes a political fundraising event; provides that travel on any state aircraft shall be limited to state officers and employees on official state business, federal and local government officers or employees accompanying them and persons in the care and custody of a state officer or employee; prohibits travel on a state aircraft if the passenger is to be transported to or from a place where the passenger will attend or has attended an event sponsored by a political party or candidate, or will perform or has performed a service for which the passenger is to receive an honorarium, unless the passenger reimburses the state for transportation costs. (74 §§ 500.71/500.73) (See HBs 1009, 1012)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
RULES
HOUSE COMMITTEE - COM SUB DO PASS 02/20/97
GENERAL ORDER - HOUSE 02/20/97
* HB 1024 (Askins/Harrison) - OETA. Changes the termination date of the Oklahoma Educational Television Authority to July 1, 2002. (74 § 3903)
HOUSE COMMITTEE - DO PASS 02/10/97
BILL PASSED - HOUSE 02/18/97
EMERGENCY PASSED - HOUSE 02/18/97
(92 AYE / 8 NAY / 0 ABSENT / 1 EXCUSED / 0 NOT VOTING)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/19/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/20/97
SUNSET REVIEW
* HB 1038 (Settle) - WORKERS' COMPENSATION. Clarifies language relating to the Workers' Compensation Act. The committee substitute modifies the definitions in the Workers' Compensation Act; prohibits physicians from testifying on any issue outside of the customary areas of expertise for which the physician is permitted to practice; allows a claimant to request continuing medical maintenance supervised by the claimant's attending physician within a certain time; allows a claimant to request appointment of medical case manager; requires the court to appoint a medical case manager if the parties cannot agree; outlines a procedure for electing whether to participate in a certified workplace medical plan; requires employers to give employees written notice of the option to elect to participate in a plan; changes from mandatory to discretionary an employee's entitlement to vocational rehabilitation services; provides that if an employee unreasonably refuses the evaluation or services and accepts permanent partial disability benefits, the employee would not be entitled to permanent total disability benefits unless a change of conditions is established; provides that if an employee refuses services or training ordered by the court or fails to complete training in good faith, the cost of the evaluation or training, previously paid by the employer, would be deducted from any unpaid employee benefits; requires an insurance carrier to notify the employer of the possibility and/or terms of any settlement; gives employers certain rights and obligations regarding workers' compensation claims. (85 § 2.5)
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
JUDICIARY
HOUSE COMMITTEE - COM SUB DO PASS 02/12/97
GENERAL ORDER - HOUSE 02/12/97
* HB 1039 (Toure) WORKERS' COMPENSATION. This is a shell bill relating to the Workers' Compensation Act. (85 § 6.1)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
JUDICIARY
* HB 1042 (Greenwood) - STUDENT FEES. Provides that students with adequate health insurance would not have to pay a student health care fee at public higher education institutions. (70 § 3218.12)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
APPROPRIATIONS & BUDGET
* HB 1055 - (Davis) - TUITION TRUST. This is a shell bill relating to the Oklahoma Tuition Trust Act. (70 § 6002)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
APPROPRIATIONS & BUDGET
* HB 1065 (Ervin) - WORKERS' COMPENSATION/SAFETY. Clarifies language relating to workplace safety plans developed pursuant to the Workers' Compensation Act. (85 § 61.2)
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
JUDICIARY
HOUSE COMMITTEE - COM SUB DO PASS 02/19/97
GENERAL ORDER - HOUSE 02/19/97
* HB 1067 (Toure) - WORKERS' COMPENSATION. Clarifies language relating to the penalty for discharging an employee in violation of the Workers' Compensation Act. (85 § 6)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
JUDICIARY
* HB 1068 (Sadler) - WORKERS' COMPENSATION. Provides that, for workers' compensation purposes, contractors shall be liable only for compensation due to their direct employees. (85 § 3)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
JUDICIARY
* HB 1072 (Ramsey) - AD VALOREM TAX. Provides for submitting ad valorem tax complaints and the distribution of protested funds. (68 § 3106.1)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
REVENUE & TAXATION
* HB 1073 (O'Neal) - TELECOMMUNICATIONS. Modifies telecommunications service and rental charges subject to sales tax to delete installation and construction charges. (68 § 1354)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
REVENUE & TAXATION
* HB 1077 (Seikel) - HEALTH INSURANCE. Requires that health insurance and health benefit plans include coverage for severe mental illness equal to coverage for other physical diseases and disorders; provides an exception for policies that provide coverage for a specified disease or other limited-benefit coverage or groups with 25 or fewer employees. The committee substitute requires that such coverage be equal to coverage for other physical diseases and disorders when medically necessary and subject to the terms and conditions of the health benefit plan, agreement, contract or policy; makes the exception apply to groups with 50 or fewer employees; modifies the definition of "severe mental illness" to delete language relating to other disorders identified currently or in the future as severe, biologically based mental illness. (36 § 6060.4)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
INSURANCE
HOUSE COMMITTEE - COM SUB DO PASS 02/12/97
GENERAL ORDER - HOUSE 02/12/97
* HB 1083 (Beutler) - EQUESTRIAN ACTIVITIES. Requires any person participating in equestrian activities to assume the risk and legal responsibility for any injury to his person or property caused by hazards inherent in equestrian sports, unless the injury was proximately caused by the negligence of the person providing the horse to the participant or the failure to guard or warn against a dangerous condition, use, structure, or activity by the person providing the horse or the person's agents or employees. (76 § 50.1)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
JUDICIARY
* HB 1085 (Roberts/Monson) - RETIREMENT/LIFE INSURANCE. Increases from three-fourths to the full basic life insurance coverage the amount certain members of state retirement systems may elect to continue after severance from state employment. (74 § 1316.1)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
RETIREMENT LAWS
HOUSE COMMITTEE - DO PASS 02/11/97
* HB 1086 (Roberts/Monson) - INSURANCE BOARD. Increases membership of the State and Education Employees Group Insurance Board from eight members to nine by adding the executive director, or a designee, of an employee organization representing the largest number of state employees. (74 § 1304)
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
RULES
HOUSE COMMITTEE - DO PASS 02/20/97
GENERAL ORDER - HOUSE 02/20/97
* HB 1091 (Roberts) - HEALTH INSURANCE. Requires that the benefit price of a health maintenance organization (HMO) made available to participants by the State Employees Benefits Council be determined on a competitive bid basis; requires that the benefit price for the next fiscal year be finally determined by 2 p.m. on the second Wednesday in January of the previous fiscal year; requires that all plans offered by HMOs not be subject to the provisions of the Central Purchasing Act; requires the Council to promulgate rules establishing appropriate competitive bidding criteria and procedures for such contracts. (74 § 1371)
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
RULES
HOUSE COMMITTEE - COM SUB DO PASS 02/20/97
GENERAL ORDER - HOUSE 02/20/97
* HB 1092 (Roberts) - RETIREMENT. Teachers' Retirement System Fiscal Health Task Force Recommendations Act.
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
RETIREMENT LAWS
* HB 1093 (Roberts) - RETIREMENT. Teachers' Retirement System Fiscal Health Task Force Recommendations Act.
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
RETIREMENT LAWS
* HB 1094 (Roberts/Monson) - RETIREMENT. Creates the "Public Retirement Systems Technical Corrections Act of 1997". The committee substitute clarifies language relating to the state retirement systems, including OTRS.
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
RETIREMENT LAWS
HOUSE COMMITTEE - DO PASS 02/18/97
GENERAL ORDER - HOUSE 02/18/97
* HB 1096 (Roberts) - RETIREMENT. Clarifies language relating to establishment of the Teachers' Retirement System (OTRS). (70 § 17-102)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
RETIREMENT LAWS
* HB 1098 (Roberts) - RETIREMENT. Requires that a minimum of 10 percent of the total monies of the various state retirement systems, including the OTRS, be invested by an entity the principal business offices of which are located within the state if the entity otherwise qualifies to manage monies of the systems as prescribed by law. (70 § 17-106.1)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
RETIREMENT LAWS
LAID OVER - HOUSE 02/11/97
* HB 1099 (Roberts) - RETIREMENT. Teachers' Retirement System Fiscal Health Task Force Recommendations Act.
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
RETIREMENT LAWS
* HB 1100 (Roberts/Monson) - RETIREMENT. Teachers' Retirement System Fiscal Health Task Force Recommendations Act.
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
RETIREMENT LAWS
HOUSE COMMITTEE - DO PASS 02/11/97
* HB 1101 (Roberts) - RETIREMENT. Teachers' Retirement System Fiscal Health Task Force Recommendations Act.
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
RETIREMENT LAWS
* HB 1102 (Roberts) - RETIREMENT. Increases, over a period of five years, the proportion of the gross production tax which goes to the OTRS, which also reduces the amount of the tax now going to the General Revenue Fund (from which most appropriations are made). (68 § 1004a)
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
APPROPRIATIONS & BUDGET
HOUSE COMMITTEE - DO PASS 02/20/97
GENERAL ORDER - HOUSE 02/20/97
* HB 1119 (Roberts) - APPROPRIATIONS/RETIREMENT. Appropriates $56,664,006 from the Constitutional Reserve Fund (Rainy Day Fund) to the OTRS to reduce the pension fund's unfunded accrued liabilities.
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
APPROPRIATIONS & BUDGET
* HB 1120 (Webb) - ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES. Deletes obsolete language relating to the Oklahoma Administrative Code. (75 § 250.9)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
ADMINISTRATIVE RULE REVIEW
LAID OVER - HOUSE 02/17/97
* HB 1121 (Webb) - ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES. Correcting reference to the Oklahoma Advisory Committee on Intergovernmental Relations. (75 § 308)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
ADMINISTRATIVE RULE REVIEW
HOUSE COMMITTEE - DO PASS AS AMENDED 02/20/97
GENERAL ORDER - HOUSE 02/20/97
* HB 1130 - (Fields) - EMPLOYMENT SECURITY. Modifies the Oklahoma Employment Security Act. The committee substitute modifies confidentiality requirements to permit the release of information required to identify economic trends to the OU Center for Economic and Management Research; requires confidentiality; permits OU to release aggregated data, provided such aggregation meets disclosure requirements of the Employment Security Commission. (40 § 4-508)
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
COMMERCE, INDUSTRY & LABOR
HOUSE COMMITTEE - COM SUB DO PASS 02/18/97
GENERAL ORDER - HOUSE 02/18/97
* HB 1139 - (Hager) - TUITION/STATE EMPLOYEES. Provides for reimbursement for state employees' tuition, required books and materials for a course taken at a state college or university or at a vo-tech school, if the employee receives the equivalent of a letter grade of "C" or better; requires the employing agency to determine whether the course furthers a legitimate purpose of the agency by improving the employee's skills or abilities. (74 § 840-2.28)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
APPROPRIATIONS & BUDGET
* HB 1145 - (Dunegan) - LEAVE. Provides that employees may take leave without pay for authorized absences under the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993; authorizes employees to donate sick leave for such purpose. (74 § 840-2.22)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
GOVT OPS & AGENCY OVERSIGHT
HOUSE COMMITTEE - DO PASS 02/17/97
GENERAL ORDER - HOUSE 02/17/97
* HB 1159 - (Clay Pope) - LIVESTOCK LIABILITY. Creates the "Oklahoma Livestock Activities Liability Limitation Act"; states legislative intent to encourage livestock activities by limiting the civil liability of livestock activities sponsors, whether operating for profit or nonprofit, and livestock professionals involved in such activities; requires livestock professionals and livestock activity sponsors to post and maintain appropriation warning signs. (76 § 50.1)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
JUDICIARY
* HB 1166 - (Hager) - CPA EDUCATION. Requires applicants for a certificate of certified public accountant, beginning July 1, 2002, to have earned 150 semester hours or its equivalent including a baccalaureate or higher degree from an accredited Oklahoma four-year college or university or any other college or university recognized by the board; provides exceptions to education requirements. (59 § 15.8)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
JUDICIARY
* HB 1173 (Roberts) - HEALTH INSURANCE/RETIREES. Clarifies language relating to health care coverage for retired members of the OTRS. (74 § 1316.3)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
RULES
* HB 1203 (Kinnamon/Maddox) - WORKERS' COMPENSATION. Clarifies language relating to the workers' compensation rating plans. The committee substitute substantially modifies the Workers' Compensation Act. (360 § 924.2)
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
JUDICIARY
HOUSE COMMITTEE - COM SUB DO PASS 02/19/97
GENERAL ORDER - HOUSE 02/19/97
* HB 1206 (Morgan) - EMPLOYMENT SECURITY. This is a shell bill relating to the Oklahoma Employment Security Act. (40 § 1-208)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
COMMERCE, INDUSTRY & LABOR
* HB 1210 (Wells/Wright) - MILITARY SERVICE. Introduces the "Military Service Relief Act"; provides for reemployment rights and other benefits for persons called to military service in the reserve forces; authorizes an employer to pay compensation to an employee who leaves employment to perform military service, during the employee's military service; requires that, if an employer elects to pay such compensation, it be paid on a uniform basis to all such employees called to military service; provides for a stay of a court action or adjudicatory or licensing proceeding during the term of military service, with exceptions; provides for continuation of insurance and retirement benefits; requires reinstatement to employment under certain circumstances; prohibits the unnecessary disruption of higher education of a student member of a reserve unit. (72 §§ 501/535)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
JUDICIARY
HOUSE COMMITTEE - COM SUB DO PASS 02/12/97
* HB 1221 (Steidley) - HEALTH INSURANCE. Requires that insurance policies offering coverage for adopted children include the actual and documented medical costs associated with the birth of the adopted child. (36 § 6059)
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
INSURANCE
HOUSE COMMITTEE - COM SUB DO PASS 02/12/97
GENERAL ORDER - HOUSE 02/12/97
* HB 1222 (Steidley) - HEALTH INSURANCE. Provides that a temporary or seasonal employee who works full-time shall be considered an employee for purposes of the State and Education Employee's Group Insurance Act. (74 § 1303)
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
RULES
HOUSE COMMITTEE - DO PASS 02/20/97
GENERAL ORDER - HOUSE 02/20/97
* HB 1224 (Steidley) -REDUCTION IN FORCE. The committee substitute provides that if an agency has posted a reduction-in-force implementation schedule, all employees in positions covered in the plan and any within the displacement limits established by the plan shall be eligible for priority reemployment consideration, with certain exceptions; outlines the type of severance package to be offered employees if the reduction in force is due to a reduction in funding. (74 § 840-2.27)
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
APPROPRIATIONS & BUDGET
HOUSE COMMITTEE - COM SUB DO PASS 02/19/97
GENERAL ORDER - HOUSE 02/19/97
* HB 1231 (Kirby) - ENGLISH AS COMMON LANGUAGE. Recognizes English as the common language of this state, with certain exceptions. (25 § 300)
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
RULES
HOUSE COMMITTEE - DO PASS 02/18/97
GENERAL ORDER - HOUSE 02/18/97
* HB 1246 (Roach) - WELFARE/WORKFORCE. Creates the "Workforce Training Act." The committee substitute creates the "Workforce Training Incentive Act"; provides for an income tax credit equal to 50 percent of the cost of a qualified employee training expense incurred by an employer eligible for incentive payments under the Quality Jobs Program Act; provides that the credit may be carried forward for a period not to exceed four years. (68 §
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
HOUSE COMMITTEE - COM SUB DO PASS 02/19/97
GENERAL ORDER - HOUSE 02/19/97
* HB 1248 (Roach) - PHYSICAL THERAPISTS. Increases membership of the Physical Therapy Committee from three to five members, adding a licensed physical therapist assistant and a lay person as members; outlines licensing requirements for physical therapist applicants educated outside the United States; provides for continuing education requirements for license renewal. (59 § 887.4)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
PUBLIC HEALTH
HOUSE COMMITTEE - DO PASS AS AMENDED 02/10/97
* HB 1254 (Roach) - ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. Creates the "Oklahoma Economic Improvement Act."
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
* HB 1259 (Graves) - RIGHT TO WORK. Creates the "Oklahoma Right to Work Law"; declares public policy that the right to work not be subject to undue restraint or coercion; provides that the right to work shall not be infringed or restricted in any way based on membership in, affiliation with or financial or other support of a labor organization or on refusal to join, affiliate with or financially or otherwise support a labor organization. (40 § 470)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
COMMERCE, INDUSTRY & LABOR
* HB 1260 (Graves) - HOMOSEXUAL LIFESTYLES. Prohibits employers from offering or requiring any employee to take any training which is designed to put homosexual lifestyles in a favorable light. (74 § 840-3.1a)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
RULES
* HB 1294 (Pettigrew) - CHILD SUPPORT/PAYROLL. Changes the "Oklahoma Welfare Self Sufficiency Initiative" to "Oklahoma Welfare Reform of 1997". Section 43 requires employers to report to the Department of Human Services (DHS), Child Support Enforcement Division, the hiring or employment of any person who resides or works in this state to whom the employer anticipates paying earnings. (40 § 2-802)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
APPROPRIATIONS & BUDGET
* HB 1296 (Reese) - WORKERS' COMP. Provides that, if an individual lacks sufficient base period wages because of a job-related injury for which the individual received total temporary disability payments awarded by the Workers' Compensation Court, upon written application by the claimant, an extended base period will be substituted for the current base period on a quarter-by-quarter basis as needed to establish a valid claim for benefits pursuant to the Employment Security Act. (40 § 1-202A)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
COMMERCE, INDUSTRY & LABOR
* HB 1308 (Greenwood) - TEACHER CERTIFICATION. Requires the State Board of Education to grant a special license to teach mathematics, science, or foreign language to a person who applies to the board and has at least a baccalaureate degree from an institution whose accreditation is recognized by the State Regents, has completed a major in the specified areas of specialization, and can document at least 20 years of work experience which is related to the subject area of specialization; requires that such persons participate in and complete at least one school year of teaching services as a resident teacher in a residency program; requires the board to issue a teaching certificate to any person who holds a special teaching license and who has served a minimum of one school year as a resident teacher, been recommended for certification by the residency committee and made the necessary application and paid the certification fee. (70 O.S. § 6-122.4)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
EDUCATION
* HB 1312 (Lindley) - FEE WAIVER. Requires a waiver of general enrollment fees and nonresident tuition in the State System institutions and a tuition waiver at vo-tech schools for state employees; limits such waivers to five years and makes the waivers a service benefit. (70 §§ 3218.7a, 14-105.1)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/03/97
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
APPROPRIATIONS & BUDGET
* HB 1315 (Deutschendorf) - LEGISLATION ON INTERNET. Requires the Legislative Service Bureau, by Jan. 1, 1998, to make available on-line through the Internet all proposed legislation, including all versions of a measure and the status history of each measure; requires the bureau to work with other agencies and entities to make the service available. (74 § 450.1)
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/04/97
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
HOUSE COMMITTEE - DO PASS 02/17/97
GENERAL ORDER - HOUSE 02/17/97
* HB 1331 (Worthen) - STATE-OWNED VEHICLES. Modifies requirements of certain persons to install ignition interlock devices on their vehicles; prohibits exemption for