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2010 Legislative Overview

The Legislative Overview describes Oklahoma's legislative and budget processes and identifies key decision-makers at the Capitol. Visit the overview »

Online Budget Guide

The Online Budget Guide is a tool for users to understand Oklahoma state and local governments, particularly how they collect and spend public money. Visit the guide »

SQ 744

July 14th, 2010 | ! | Published in:

Budget and Taxes

On November 2, 2010, Oklahomans will vote on SQ 744, a constitutional amendment that would peg the annual education budget in Oklahoma to the regional average per pupil expenditure in six neighboring states. OK Policy has released an issue brief and accompanying materials on SQ 744 that makes the case for why the proposal represents the wrong solution for Oklahoma.

OK POLICY MATERIALS

Full-length issue brief

1-page summary

FY '10 - FY '11Budget Information

May 15th, 2009 | ! | Published in:

Budget and Taxes

This Budget Information page and the OK Policy blog provide you the key resources you need to make sense of where things stand with the state budget, follow emerging developments, and explore ideas for managing the state fiscal crisis.

Fact Sheets: Lottery, Gaming and Tobacco (2010)

August 25th, 2010 | Published in:

Budget and Taxes

In 2004, Oklahoma voters approved a series of measures that created the Oklahoma Education Lottery (SQ 705 & SQ 706), authorized and regulated gaming (SQ 712) and increased tobacco taxes (SQ 713) to generate new revenues to help fund education and health care. In these revised and updated 1-page fact sheets, we look at how these revenue sources operate, the amount of annual revenue collections from each source and where the revenues have been allocated.