Steve Lewis served as Speaker of the Oklahoma House of Representatives from 1989-1990. He currently practices law in Tulsa and represents clients at the Capitol.
By: Steve Lewis
April 28, 2025 // Updated: April 28, 2025
As legislators draft the state budget and conclude the session, they will confront the issue of what to do with Gov. Kevin Stitt’s proposal for an income tax cut and the eventual elimination of the state income tax. House Bill… Read more [More...]
By: Steve Lewis
April 22, 2025 // Updated: April 22, 2025
Legislative investigative committees in Oklahoma are rare, as they should be. The legislature has only four months to enact laws and policy for state government and to write a balanced budget for the coming year. Time spent taking testimony under… Read more [More...]
By: Steve Lewis
April 14, 2025 // Updated: April 14, 2025
• OK Policy Advocacy Alert: Tell lawmakers to oppose tax cuts that benefit the wealthy and risk critical services
With seven weeks remaining before mandatory sine die adjournment on May 30, appropriations committee members and leadership are now focusing on… Read more [More...]
By: Steve Lewis
April 7, 2025 // Updated: April 7, 2025
During the lull in legislative action in “crossover” week last week, a bit of politics filled the void. Crossover week is the week after floor deadlines during which House bills that remain alive officially move to the Senate, and Senate… Read more [More...]
By: Steve Lewis
March 31, 2025 // Updated: March 31, 2025
In 2004, in response to the business establishment’s perennial call for “tort reform,” House Speaker Larry Adair and Senate President Pro Tempore Cal Hobson authored House Bill 2661 authorizing the Oklahoma Supreme Court to create a Business Court Division within… Read more [More...]
By: Steve Lewis
March 25, 2025 // Updated: March 25, 2025
Sen. Kristen Thompson, R-Edmond, Chair of the Senate Economic Development, Workforce and Tourism Committee, has been working more than two years to revamp Oklahoma’s economic development efforts, and the result was passage in the Senate last week of her Senate… Read more [More...]
By: Steve Lewis
March 10, 2025 // Updated: March 11, 2025
The updated SB 1027 contains arduous requirements that will be a significant barrier to the people in exercising their rights to the state question process. [More...]
By: Steve Lewis
March 5, 2025 // Updated: March 5, 2025
House Bill 1008 by Rep. Jim Olsen, R-Roland, would permit abortions in Oklahoma in cases where an abortion is required to save the life of the mother. The bill passed out of the House Health and Human Services Oversight Committee… Read more [More...]
By: Steve Lewis
February 25, 2025 // Updated: February 25, 2025
The Senate Judiciary Committee devoted a good part of last Wednesday afternoon to hearing four, what might be called “religious right” bills, and killed all four of them. The committee meeting was unusual, to say the least. Normally, culture war… Read more [More...]
By: Steve Lewis
February 17, 2025 // Updated: February 17, 2025
It is gratifying to see the Legislature is set to approve the settlement negotiated by Attorney General Gentner Drummond and the plaintiffs in a federal lawsuit that complained of inadequate treatment services by the state to restore defendants to competency… Read more [More...]