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What's That?

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

  • Ballot Title

  • Block Grant

  • Board of Equalization

  • Budget Reconciliation

  • Capital gains deduction

  • Child Care/Child Tax Credit

  • Coinsurance

  • Committee bill

  • Committee Substitute

  • Concurrent Resolution

  • Conference Committee

  • Consumer Price Index (CPI)

  • Copayment

  • Corporate Income Tax

  • Coverage crater

  • DACA

  • DDSD waivers

  • Deductible/High-Deductible Health Plan

  • DREAM Act

  • Dual-eligible

  • Earned Income Tax Credit

  • Education Scholarship Tax Credits (Equal Opportunity Education Scholarship Act)

  • Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)

  • Emergency certification

  • Emergency clause

  • Emergency Rules

  • Engrossed Bill

  • Enrolled Bill

  • Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)

  • Federal Poverty Level

  • 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 Tax

  • Gross Receipts

  • Health Care Enhancement Fund

  • Health Savings Account

  • House Bill 1017

  • Incentive Evaluation Commission

  • Individual Income Tax

  • Individual mandate

  • Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)

  • Initiative Petition

  • Interim Study

  • Investment/New Jobs Tax Credit

  • Joint Committee on Appropriations and Budget (JCAB)

  • 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 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

  • Revenue Bills

  • Revenue Estimates/ Revenue Certification

  • Revenue Failure

  • 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

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