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Bill Watch: Opportunities to make Oklahomans better off economically this session

February 21, 2019 // Updated: February 21, 2019

This session, the Legislature will have several opportunities to improve the lives of hard-working Oklahomans and their families. Legislators have filed bills to create second chances for the justice-involved, make sure workers have paid time off to care for their own health and the health of their loved ones, and restore the full value of the Earned Income Tax Credit. All of these would be great steps toward creating an Oklahoma that appropriately values and fairly rewards the labor of its citizens.

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Bill Watch: A wide range of education issues on lawmakers’ agenda

February 19, 2019 // Updated: February 19, 2019

Legislators filed approximately 2,800 bills this session, and about 250 of those dealt with education. This list below only touches the surface of those headed through the Legislature, but they could have considerable impact on Oklahoma's schools.

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New legislators taking on overlooked problems (Capitol Update)

February 18, 2019 // Updated: February 18, 2019

This year's crop of bills reflects the priorities of an unusually large group of new and almost new legislators. The priorities include a willingness to work on social issues that in the past may have been overlooked.

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