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Key terms to understand Oklahoma politics and government.
1017 Fund
Absentee Voting
Ad Valorem Exemptions (Property Tax Exemptions)
Ad Valorem Manufacturing Exemption
Ad Valorem Tax (Property Tax)
Administrative Rules
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)
Affordable Care Act
American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA)
Balanced Budget
Balanced Budget Amendment
Ballot Title
Block Grant
Board of Equalization
Budget Reconciliation
Capital gains deduction
Child Care/Child Tax Credit
Coinsurance
Committee Substitute
Concurrent Resolution
Conference Committee
Consumer Price Index (CPI)
Copayment
Corporate Income Tax
Coverage crater
DACA
DDSD Waivers and Wait List
Deductible/High-Deductible Health Plan
DREAM Act
Dual-eligible
Earned Income Tax Credit
Education Scholarship Tax Credits (Equal Opportunity Education Scholarship Act)
Effective Date
Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)
Emergency certification
Emergency clause
Emergency Rules
Engrossed Bill
Enrolled Bill
Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)
Federal Poverty Level
Filibuster
Fiscal Year
FMAP (Federal Medical Assistance Percentage)
Food Insecurity
FQHCs (Federally-Qualified Health Centers)
Franchise Tax
General Appropriations (GA) Bill
General Revenue Fund
Gross Production Taxes
Gross Receipts
Health Care Enhancement Fund
Health Savings Account
House Bill 1017
Housing Choice Voucher Program (Section 8)
Incentive Evaluation Commission
Individual Income Tax
Individual mandate
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)
Initiative Petition
Interim Study
Investment/New Jobs Tax Credit
JCAB (Joint Committee on Appropriations and Budget)
Joint Resolution
Judicial Nominating Commission
Labor Force Participation Rate
LEAD (Large-scale Economic Activity and Development) Act
Legislative Compensation Board
Legislative Office of Fiscal Transparency (LOFT)
Legislative Referendum
Legislative Service Bureau (LSB)
Lindsay Nicole Henry Scholarships
Line-Item Veto
Managed Care
Medicaid Expansion
Medicaid waiver
Medicaid/SoonerCare
Medicare
Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT)
Millage/Mills
Minimum Wage
Motion to Reconsider
Motor fuels tax
Motor Vehicle Taxes
No Child Left Behind (NCLB)
Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals
Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals
Oklahoma Department of Human Services
Oklahoma Health Care Authority
Oklahoma Parental Choice Tax Credits
Oklahoma Supreme Court
Oklahoma’s Promise (OHLAP)
Open Meetings Act
Per capita cap
Pinnacle Plan
Pocket Veto
Public Charge
Quality Jobs Program
Quick Action Closing Fund
Rainy Day Fund
Reading Sufficiency Act/Strong Readers Act
Regressive Tax
Revenue Bills
Revenue Estimates/ Revenue Certification
Revenue Failure/Revenue Shortfall
Revenue Stabilization Fund
Revolving Funds
ROADS Fund
Sales Tax Relief Credit
Section 1115 Waivers
Shell Bill
Sine Die
Single-Subject Rule
SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program)
SoonerCare (Medicaid)
Special Election
Special Session
SQ 780 and SQ 781
SQ 802
Standard Deduction
State Aid/State Aid Formula
State Question
State Question 640
Straight-Ticket Voting (Straight-Party Voting)
Striking Title
Supplemental Appropriation
Supplemental Hospital Offset Payment Program (SHOPP)
Supplemental Poverty Measure
TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families)
Tax Base
Tax Expenditure Report
Tax Expenditures
TEFRA
Term Limits
Title I
Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust (TSET)
Tribal Gaming Compacts
Veto referendum
Voter ID Requirements
WIC
Woolly-Booger
