by Veronica Laizure | May 31, 2022 | Blog
Week 15 Legislative Recap Congratulations! We made it to the end of another legislative session. The final week of meetings for the governing body of the state of Oklahoma was fraught with tension, with vetoes and overrides coming to a dramatic conclusion at the end...
by Veronica Laizure | May 27, 2022 | Blog
Week 14 Recap The final weeks of the legislative session bring a slew of new budget-related bills as other business comes to a close. Criminal Justice A number of criminal justice-related measures have been signed into law. Some have positive effects: HB 3053 allows...
by Veronica Laizure | May 19, 2022 | Blog
Week 13 Legislative Recap For the remainder of the session, we will focus on bills that have been signed or vetoed at the Governor’s desk as well as the upcoming bills that deal with the budget. Criminal Justice A number of criminal justice-related measures passed the...
by Veronica Laizure | May 17, 2022 | Blog
Week 12 Recap (May 2) Bills continued to fly this week as they passed the Governor’s desk for signatures. Criminal Justice Some very good news in the criminal justice realm came through as the Governor signed some positive bills. HB 3316, which makes automatic...
by Bre Johnson and Bailee Tanguma | May 9, 2022 | Blog
Week 11 Recap, April 25 Leading up to the final deadline of the 2022 legislative session, both houses rushed to hear bills from their opposite chamber by the close of session on April 28. This meant many late nights and some questionable dealings to push bills...
by Bre Johnson and Bailee Tanguma | Apr 27, 2022 | Blog
As bills advance, many of them are being signed into law. Those with emergency clauses will become effective on signing; others will become effective at dates written into the language of the bill. This quickly moving segment of the legislative session is crucial to...
