From: Bryce Fair & Carolyn McCoy
Date: Friday, February 23, 1996
Subject: Bill Tracking Update
The following document is divided into three sections.
Section I highlights activities of the past week. Section II
provides a subject index of the bills we are tracking.
Section III provides a brief summary of each bill plus the
legislative action taken on the bill to date.
Section I: Highlights This Week:
Legislative committees worked long hours this week to consider bills before yesterday's February 22 deadline for committee action on bills in the house of origin. Bills that did not make it out of committee are generally "dead" for this legislative session and will be removed from the list next week. The Legislature's focus will now shift to the House and Senate floors as each house has three weeks, until March 14, to pass bills which came out of committee.
UCT/Rogers State College Merger on the "Fast Track": SB 1162, which provides for the merging of the governing boards of the University Center at Tulsa (UCT) and Rogers State College into a single governing board, quickly passed two Senate hurdles this week and has moved to the House. On Monday, the Senate Education Committee passed the bill without opposition on a vote of 15 aye, 0 nay. Senate President Pro Tempore Stratton Taylor (D - Claremore), who is an ex-officio, voting member of every Senate committee, attended the meeting (a fairly rare occurrence) and voted in favor of the measure. Senator Taylor is also one of the coauthors of the bill. UCT President Roger Randle addressed the committee saying that the two institutions would remain identifiably separate and largely retain their current operations. Rogers State would continue to function as a community college and would not bring lower level courses to UCT. However, UCT would look to use its "center" model to bring upper level and graduate courses to the Rogers State campuses.
On the following day, SB 1162 was taken up on the Senate floor and eventually also passed without opposition on a vote of 45 aye, 0 nay. However, before the final vote on the bill was taken, Sen. Ed Long, who represents the Enid area, offered an amendment to grant the Enid Higher Education Program the same "institutional" status that was given to UCT in 1992. After much discussion and debate, the amendment was rejected by a motion to table the Long amendment which passed by a vote of 27 aye, 17 nay. The bill has now been sent to the House and has been assigned to the House Education Committee.
Funds Available for FY'97 Appropriations: The State Board of Equalization met on Tuesday to make its final estimate of revenue available for appropriation by the Legislature this session. The new estimate dropped only slightly from the Board's original estimate in December 1995. Instead of $287.6 million in additional funds available for appropriation, the Board certified $284.2 million, a drop of $3.4 million. From this point on, the estimate cannot be changed unless laws directly affecting state revenues are passed.
Legislative Deadlines:
March 14, Thursday Pass Bills from Floor of House of Origin
March 28, Thursday Pass Bills from Committee in the Opposite House
Actions This Week:
Bills Passed on the Senate Floor:
Bills Passed from Senate Committees:
Bills Passed on the House Floor:
Bills Passed from House Committees:
Bills Rejected in House Committees:
Conference Committee Reports Submitted (bills still alive from the 1995 session)
New Bills Added to List:
Upcoming Events/Activities
Note: Our weekly legislative update will now be available on the internet homepage of the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education at: http://www.osrhe.edu. Each week's update should be posted on the homepage by late Friday afternoon.
If you need copies of any of the bills, please contact Carolyn McCoy at (405) 225-9200 or e-mail her at "cmccoy@osrhe.edu".
Section II:
OKLAHOMA STATE REGENTS FOR HIGHER EDUCATION
BILLS OF INTEREST TO HIGHER EDUCATION
INDEX
Forty-Fifth Legislature - Second Session
Feb. 22, 1996
Academic forgiveness
HB 2191
Academic Scholars
SB 792
Accountability
SB 1129
HB 2477
Ad valorem
SJR 36
SB 1003
HJR 1080
HJR 1086
HJR 1088
HJR 1089
HJR 1091
Administrative procedures
SB 703
HB 2337
Agency closings
HB 2633
Appropriations
SB 800
SB 810
SB 814
SB 836
SB 837
HB 1809
HB 2819
HB 2820
HB 2821
HB 2841
HJR 1061
HJR 1062
HJR 1063
Athletic trainers
HB 2065
Audits
HB 2471
Benefits
SB 698
SB 850
SB 887
SB 910
SB 965
HB 2188
HB 2254
HB 2478
Bombing victims
HB 2807
Budget
SB 801
SB 810
SB 811
SB 831
SB 869
HB 2819
Cabinet organization
SB 1129
Cameron University
HCR 1059
HCR 1060
Carl Albert Public Internship Program
SB 1127
Children/youth services
SB 1237
HB 2231
Claims
SB 1149
Connors State College
SCR 38
HCR 1061
Contracts
SB 1077
SB 1312
HB 2258
HB 2890
Credits, transfer of
SB 796
HB 2635
Dentistry
SB 737
SB 851
HB 2967
Disabilities
HB 3030
Drug/alcohol testing
HB 2211
HB 2370
HB 2681
Eastern Oklahoma State College at
McAlester
SB 1319
Economic development
HB 2146
HB 2147
HB 2148
HB 2976
Education reform
HB 2488
Education, secretary of
HB 2477
Employee rights
HB 2608
Employee safety
HB 2366
HB 2652
Employment security
SB 2377
HB 2728
Endowment trust funds
HB 2993
HB 3019
English language
HB 2054
Environment
SB 1094
Equine activities
SB 784
SB 1046
HB 2400
Ethics
HB 2614
Fees, student
HB 2051
HB 2164
HB 2187
Fee waivers
SB 900
SB 908
HB 2127
HB 2196
Flags
HB 2104
GED courses
HB 2440
HB 1964
Genetic privacy
HB 2478
Gift reporting
HB 2987
Government reform
HB 2809
Guaranteed Student Loans
HB 2776
HB 2887
Holidays
HB 2480
Homosexual lifestyles
SR 29
SR 31
HR 1045
HR 1046
Insurance, health
SB 684
SB 697
SB 799
SB 850
SB 866
SB 888
SB 890
SB 896
SB 910
SB 922
SB 935
SB 936
SB 945
SB 958
SB 960
SB 969
SB 970
SB 1040
SB 1068
SB 1078
SB 1096
SB 1106
SB 1108
SB 1144
SB 1166
SB 1176
SB 1216
SB 1238
SB 1288
SB 1289
HB 2071
HB 2088
HB 2165
HB 2180
HB 2188
HB 2189
HB 2218
Insurance, health (cont'd)
HB 2235
HB 2254
HB 2261
HB 2302
HB 2330
HB 2348
HB 2355
HB 2396
HB 2478
HB 2497
HB 2502
HB 2533
HB 2655
HB 2756
HB 2934
HB 2955
HB 3021
HB 3034
International trade
HB 2899
Job training
SB 1159
HB 2581
Jury duty
SB 1022
HB 2083
HB 2285
Labor relations
HB 2621
Leave sharing
SB 948
HB 2850
Legal representation
HB 2534
License plates, special
HB 2336
Lobbying
HB 3022
Maternity benefits
SB 684
HB 2302
Maternity benefits (cont'd)
HB 2330
HB 2348
HB 2655
Medical technology/research
SB 1001
Mill levy
HJR 1090
Minority teacher aides
HB 2720
Northeastern State University
HCR 1070
Nurses/nurses aides
SB 537
HB 2758
Oklahoma Education Television Auth.
SB 881
Oklahoma Futures
SB 1188
Oklahoma Higher Learning Access
SB 708
SB 1164
Oklahoma School of Science/Math
HB 2754
Oklahoma State University
SB 1030
SCR 40
HB 2976
Open Meetings
HB 2246
HB 2248
HB 2747
Open Records
SB 719
Perfusionists
SB 788
Physician Manpower Training
HB 1809
HB 1811
HB 2973
Plumbing
HB 2219
Privatization of government functions
SB 935
SB 936
SB 964
HB 2690
Psychologist license
SB 1221
Purchasing
SB 964
SB 1312
HB 2176
HB 2394
HB 2470
HB 2510
HB 2579
HB 2977
HB 2999
Quality jobs
HCR 1066
Remedial courses
HB 2634
Retirement
SB 941
SB 1228
SJR 33
SCR 42
HB 2087
HB 2088
HB 2093
HB 2109
HB 2326
HB 2422
HB 2475
HB 2532
HB 2583
HB 2626
HB 2721
Retirement (cont'd)
HB 2789
HB 2792
HB 2794
HB 2795
HB 2797
HB 2861
HJR 1071
HJR 1076
HJR 1085
Risk management
HB 2447
HB 2732
School lands
SB 954
SB 1229
SB 1241
HB 2367
HB 2368
HB 2952
Smoke detectors
HB 1991
Social worker license
HB 2640
Special agency accounts
SB 877
HB 2139
HB 2373
State Insurance Fund
HB 2533
State Regents
HB 1810
Tax, income
HB 2275
HB 2409
HB 2748
HB 2875
Teacher certification
SB 1206
HB 2563
Teacher preparation
SB 801
HB 2751
HB 2753
Teachers, temporary
HB 2309
Technology
HB 2286
HB 2629
Telecommunications
SB 782
SB 1315
HB 2503
HB 2511
Tests, norm- and criterion-referenced
HB 2105
HB 2526
Tort claims
HB 2927
Travel
SB 832
HB 2384
HB 2474
HB 2481
Tuition/fees
HB 2060
HB 2127
HB 2164
HB 2196
HB 2275
HB 2748
HB 2875
Tuition reimbursement
HB 2761
Tuition savings
HB 1663
HB 2059
HB 2639
Tulsa Junior College
SCR 36
HCR 1058
Unified university system
HB 2525
University Center at Tulsa
SB 1162
HB 2717
University funds
HB 3019
University Hospitals
SB 810
SB 811
SB 831
SB 1130
HB 2538
HB 2759
HB 2841
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
SB 852
University of Oklahoma Law Center
HB 2995
University of Oklahoma Managed Care Plan
SB 890
HB 2677
HB 2801
Valedictorian scholarships
HB 2276
Violence prevention
HB 2859
Vocational/technical
SCR 43
HB 2316
Volunteers
HB 2512
HB 2513
Wages, minimum
HB 2052
Wages, prevailing
HB 2731
Waste disposal
SB 715
SB 883
Wildlife
HB 2404
Workers' compensation
SB 1042
SB 1308
SB 1310
SB 1316
HB 2256
HB 2430
HB 2441
HB 2469
HB 2576
HB 2673
HB 2846
HB 2906
HB 2948
HB 3017
Youth apprenticeship
HB 2190
HB 2192
Section III:
OKLAHOMA STATE REGENTS FOR HIGHER EDUCATION
BILLS OF INTEREST TO HIGHER EDUCATION
Forty-Fifth Legislature - Second Session - 1996
Reported Status as of 2/22/96
SENATE BILLS
* SB 537 (Robinson/Anthony) - NURSES. For purposes of the Oklahoma Nursing Practice Act, defines "advanced unlicensed assistive person" as any person who has successfully completed a training program approved by the Oklahoma Board of Nursing and is certified by the Board to function in an assistive role to the licensed nurse in the providing of patient or client care activities; provides for disciplinary action against such persons. (59 § 567.3a)
CONFEREES DISAGREE 05/26/95
2ND SESSION CARRYOVER 06/12/95
CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REPORT SUBMITTED 02/19/96
* SB 684 (Gustafson) - MATERNITY BENEFITS. Requires a health benefit plan that provides maternity coverage to provide coverage for inpatient care for a mother and the newborn child for a minimum of 48 hours after vaginal delivery and minimum of 96 hours after delivery by cesarean section. (36 § 6060.1) (See HBs 2302, 2330, 2348, 2655)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/05/96
HUMAN RESOURCES
* SB 697 (Fisher/Weese) - HEALTH INSURANCE. Creates the Primary Eye Care Provider Act; requires health benefit plans which include eye or vision care coverage to ensure direct access to a primary eye care provider who has contracted with the plan for coverage of all eye or vision care benefits provided by the plan, to ensure that plans using a gatekeeper system require that the enrollee be allowed to designate the primary eye care provider from a list of providers as the gatekeeper for basic eye care and to coordinate diagnostic testing, indicated treatment and specialty referral, to not discriminate between individual providers or classes of providers in the amount of compensation for the same or essentially similar covered services, to not promote or recommend an individual provider or class of primary providers, to include an adequate number of primary eye care providers to ensure reasonable accessibility, timeliness of care, convenience and continuity of care, and to make available to covered persons a list of all primary eye care providers who have contracted with the health benefit plan. (36 § 6052.1)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/06/96
BUSINESS & LABOR
SENATE COMMITTEE - COM SUB DO PASS 02/13/96
* SB 698 (Weedn/Roberts) - BENEFITS. Increases the membership of the State Employees Benefits Council from five members to six, to include the chief operating officer or designee of the largest statewide organization of state employees. (74 § 1364)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/05/96
GENERAL GOVERNMENT
SENATE COMMITTEE - DO PASS AS AMENDED 02/12/96
BILL PASSED - SENATE 02/21/96
(33 AYE / 11 NAY / 0 ABSENT / 4 EXCUSED / 0 NOT VOTING)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/22/96
* SB 703 (Hendrick/Benson) - ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES. Requires that, if an agency has interpreted a statute or rule pursuant to written internal policy, letter of understanding, memorandum or other written document, then no different interpretation may be given to such rule or statute, unless a new statute or judicial interpretation requires a different interpretation or unless a new rule is promulgated by the agency as required by the Administrative Procedures Act (APA); requires that agency rules state a prospective effective date; provides that, in the absence of a stated prospective effective date, rules will be effective only on and after the date of adoption. (75 § 308.2)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/06/96
DEREGULATION
SENATE COMMITTEE - DO PASS 02/21/96
* SB 708 (Horner/McCorkell) - OKLAHOMA HIGHER LEARNING ACCESS PROGRAM (OHLAP). Modifies state income tax forms to allow a donation for OHLAP; provides for a refund of the donation to a taxpayer who submits a request within three years from the due date of the tax return. (68 § 2368.1)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/05/96
FINANCE
SENATE COMMITTEE - DO PASS 02/15/96
* SB 715 (Muegge) - HAZARDOUS WASTE. Modifies fees for disposal of hazardous waste. (27A § 2-7-121)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/06/96
ENERGY, ENV. RES. & REG AFFAIR
* SB 719 (Weedn/Rice) - OPEN RECORDS. Modifies the term "record" in the Open Records Act to include data files created by or used with computer software; authorizes a public body, for purposes of the Open Records Act, to respond to a request for a record using a computer system; prescribes procedures for use by public bodies to respond to requests through use of computer systems; authorizes fees and provides for procedures for charging fees; authorizes a fee for public bodies which, without making a payment to any other entity, develops software in order to respond to a request for a record, if such software is required or reasonably necessary in order to respond to the request. (51 § 24A.1)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/06/96
SMALL BUSINESS
SENATE COMMITTEE - DO PASS AS AMENDED 02/15/96
* SB 737 (Robinson/Wells) - BOARD OF DENTISTRY. Creates the Board of Dentistry to replace the Board of Governors of the Registered Dentists of Oklahoma; changes terms throughout statutes; outlines powers and duties; authorizes the Board to, without examination, issue a dental intern permit to a graduate of an approved dental school or college who is otherwise qualified, upon request of the governing body of any public or private institution for the graduate to serve as a dental intern or resident in the institution, with limited duties as defined in the permit. (59 § 328.26) (See HB 2967)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/06/96
SMALL BUSINESS
GENERAL ORDER - SENATE 02/22/96
* SB 782 (Robinson/Anthony) - TELECOMMUNICATIONS. Creates the Oklahoma Telecommunications Act; requires state agencies which use telecommunications to develop a telecommunications plan and receive prior written authorization from the Oklahoma Telecommunications Authority before entering into any agreement to acquire, develop or enhance a telecommunications system; requires the State Regents to establish and maintain a statewide telecommunications system to be known as OneNet; creates the Oklahoma Telecommunications Authority Board; provides for membership; creates the Oklahoma Telecommunications Authority with a director appointed by the Authority; creates the Telecommunications Revolving Fund; provides that the authority board and the Office of State Finance shall prepare a proposed plan for the transfer in whole or in part of the Information Services Division of the finance office to the Authority; provides that all telecommunications networks operated by educational or government entities shall be considered to be part of the Oklahoma Government Telecommunications Network (OGTN); modifies membership of the State Data Processing and Telecommunications Advisory Committee. The committee substitute creates an Oklahoma Telecommunications Commission comprising five voting members, one of whom would be appointed by, and serve at the pleasure of, the State Regents, and the chair of the State Data Processing Telecommunications Advisory Committee as an ex officio member; requires the Commission to provide for the operation, maintenance and development of the Oklahoma Government Telecommunications Network (OGTN), establish standards, protocols and policies for the secure and efficient interoperation of the networks comprising OGTN and provide a forum for the discussion of telecommunications policies; authorizes the Commission to promulgate rules, to enter into contracts and agreements for services, and to fix and revise user charges; creates a Telecommunications Commission Revolving Fund; requires annual independent audits; prohibits state and education entities responsible for a wide-area network utilized by users that are not otherwise subject to the authority of the entity from selling or otherwise conveying any unit or units of its network or making a contract or other agreement for the operation or management of the network without approval by the Commission; increases membership of the advisory committee from 26 members to 28 members by removing a representative of the Department of Education, the State Regents, and the Department of Public Safety and including representatives of the Department of Transportation, Oklahoma Turnpike Authority, Oklahoma Conservation Commission, Oklahoma Health Care Authority and Administrative Office of the Judiciary; provides that, after the advisory committee fulfills certain obligations, the ex officio nonvoting members shall become full voting members to the Information Service Division of the Office of State Finance and the Joint Legislative Committee on Data Processing and Telecommunication. (74 § 8201) (See HBs 2503, 2511)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/06/96
SCIENCE, TECH. & TELECOMM
SENATE COMMITTEE - COM SUB DO PASS 02/15/96
* SB 784 (Wilkerson) - EQUINE ACTIVITIES. Creates the Oklahoma Equine Activities Liability Limitation Act; provides equine activity sponsors and professionals with immunity from liability for injuries suffered by participants in equine activities resulting from inherent risks, with certain exceptions; requires posting of notice regarding law. (2 § 3031)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/05/96
JUDICIARY
* SB 788 (Hendrick/Laura Boyd) - LICENSED PERFUSIONISTS. Creates the Licensed Perfusionists Act; provides that a student currently enrolled in an approved perfusion education program may receive a provisional license; makes provisions of the act not applicable to certain students enrolled in an accredited perfusion education program. (59 § 2062)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/06/96
BUSINESS & LABOR
SENATE COMMITTEE - DO PASS 02/14/96
BILL AND EMERGENCY PASSED - SENATE 02/20/96
(45 AYE / 2 NAY / 0 ABSENT / 1 EXCUSED / 0 NOT VOTING)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/21/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/22/96
PUBLIC HEALTH
* SB 792 (Campbell) - ACADEMIC SCHOLARS. Deletes the Academic Scholars' requirement that SAT score percentile levels be referenced to the student population as a whole and separately for male, female, Black non-Hispanic, Native American, Hispanic, Asian Pacific Islander and White non-Hispanic subdivisions of the population. (70 § 2403)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/06/96
EDUCATION
SENATE COMMITTEE - DO PASS AS AMENDED 02/07/96
* SB 796 (Wright) - TRANSFER OF CREDITS. States legislative intent that a unified system of class credit transfer be created within the State System to allow students of all state higher education institutions be able to transfer full credit earned between community colleges and four-year institutions. (70 § 3103.1)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/06/96
EDUCATION
* SB 799 (Monson) - HEALTH INSURANCE. Requires health insurance plans to include coverage for sever mental illness equal to benefits for treatment of other physical diseases and disorders; provides an exception for policies that provide coverage for a specified disease or other limited benefit coverage. (36 § 6060.1)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/05/96
HUMAN RESOURCES
02/22/96: DO PASS (UNOFFICIAL)
* SB 800 (Haney/Hamilton) - APPROPRIATIONS. Appropriates to various education entities; Section 13 allocates $300,500 to be expended on a competitive application basis to a State System institution for implementing a statewide telecommunications curriculum.
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/05/96
APPROPRIATIONS
AMENDMENT ADOPTED - SENATE 02/14/96
(46 AYE / 2 NAY / 0 ABSENT / 0 EXCUSED / 0 NOT VOTING)
EMERGENCY PASSED - SENATE 02/14/96
(48 AYE / 0 NAY / 0 ABSENT / 0 EXCUSED / 0 NOT VOTING)
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/19/96
APPROPRIATIONS & BUDGET
* SB 801 (Haney/Hamilton) - BUDGET LIMITATIONS. Provides budgetary limitations for various education entities including the Teacher Preparation Commission.
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/05/96
APPROPRIATIONS
AMENDMENT ADOPTED - SENATE 02/14/96
(46 AYE / 2 NAY / 0 ABSENT / 0 EXCUSED / 0 NOT VOTING)
BILL AND EMERGENCY PASSED - SENATE 02/14/96
(48 AYE / 0 NAY / 0 ABSENT / 0 EXCUSED / 0 NOT VOTING)
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/19/96
APPROPRIATIONS & BUDGET
* SB 810 (Haney/Hamilton) - APPROPRIATIONS. Appropriates to the various health-care entities including the University Hospitals Authority; authorizes the average full-time-equivalent-employee limit to be increased by as many as 150 FTE for providing staffing for program expansions or increased census at the authority, provided that such employees are funded with hospital-generated revenues.
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/05/96
APPROPRIATIONS
AMENDMENT ADOPTED - SENATE 02/14/96
BILL AND EMERGENCY PASSED - SENATE 02/14/96
(47 AYE / 0 NAY / 0 ABSENT / 1 EXCUSED / 0 NOT VOTING)
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/19/96
APPROPRIATIONS & BUDGET
* SB 811 (Haney/Hamilton) - BUDGET LIMITATIONS. Provides budgetary limitations for various health-care entities including the University Hospitals Authority.
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/05/96
APPROPRIATIONS
AMENDMENT ADOPTED - SENATE 02/14/96
BILL AND EMERGENCY PASSED - SENATE 02/14/96
(47 AYE / 0 NAY / 0 ABSENT / 1 EXCUSED / 0 NOT VOTING)
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/19/96
APPROPRIATIONS & BUDGET
* SB 814 (Haney/Hamilton) - APPROPRIATIONS. Appropriates to the Department of Agriculture; provides that funds shall be spent as necessary to accomplish contractual responsibilities for OSU's extension service for financial management technical assistance for businesses and business students; requires contractors to submit quarterly reports of activities and expenditures to the Agriculture Department; permits the Department to disallow any expenditures for activities not within the scope of approved contractual responsibilities.
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/05/96
APPROPRIATIONS
AMENDMENT ADOPTED - SENATE 02/14/96
BILL AND EMERGENCY PASSED - SENATE 02/14/96
(48 AYE / 0 NAY / 0 ABSENT / 0 EXCUSED / 0 NOT VOTING)
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/19/96
APPROPRIATIONS & BUDGET
* SB 831 (Haney/Hamilton) - BUDGET LIMITATIONS. Provides budgetary limitations for the University Hospitals Authority.
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/05/96
APPROPRIATIONS
AMENDMENT ADOPTED - SENATE 02/14/96
BILL AND EMERGENCY PASSED - SENATE 02/14/96
(48 AYE / 0 NAY / 0 ABSENT / 0 EXCUSED / 0 NOT VOTING)
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/19/96
APPROPRIATIONS & BUDGET
* SB 836 (Haney/Hamilton) - APPROPRIATIONS. Appropriates from the cash-flow reserve fund to the State Regents for allocation to institutions for their education and general operating budgets and for other programs, construction, renovation, and repairs administered by the Regents.
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/05/96
APPROPRIATIONS
AMENDMENT ADOPTED - SENATE 02/14/96
BILL AND EMERGENCY PASSED - SENATE 02/14/9696
(48 AYE / 0 NAY / 0 ABSENT / 0 EXCUSED / 0 NOT VOTING)
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/19/96
APPROPRIATIONS & BUDGET
* SB 837 (Haney/Hamilton) - APPROPRIATIONS. Appropriates to various agencies including the State Regents; Section 9 appropriates funds for the institutions; Section 10 appropriates to the State Regents for administrative offices; Section 11 appropriates to the Academic Scholars Trust Fund; Section 12 appropriates to the Endowment Trust Fund; Section 13 appropriates $13,537,430 to OTAG; Section 14 appropriates $3,507,000 for Section 13 offset funds; Section 15 appropriates funds for summer academies; Sections 18 and 19 appropriate to the Physician Manpower Training Commission; Section 24 appropriates to the Teacher Preparation Commission; Section 75 appropriates to the University Hospitals Authority.
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/05/96
APPROPRIATIONS
AMENDMENT ADOPTED - SENATE 02/14/96
BILL AND EMERGENCY PASSED - SENATE 02/14/96
(48 AYE / 0 NAY / 0 ABSENT / 0 EXCUSED / 0 NOT VOTING)
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/19/96
APPROPRIATIONS & BUDGET
* SB 850 (Haney/Hamilton) - BENEFITS. Shell bill relating to the State Employees Benefits Act. (74 § 1371)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/05/96
APPROPRIATIONS
AMENDMENT ADOPTED - SENATE 02/14/96
BILL AND EMERGENCY PASSED - SENATE 02/14/96
(48 AYE / 0 NAY / 0 ABSENT / 0 EXCUSED / 0 NOT VOTING)
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/19/96
APPROPRIATIONS & BUDGET
* SB 851 (Monson/Wells) - DENTAL LICENSE. Modifies language relating to a specialist license in dentistry to provide for a "dental specialty" license. The committee substitute deletes the requirement that dental specialists must limit their practice to the specialty in which licensed. (59 § 328.22)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/06/96
BUSINESS & LABOR
SENATE COMMITTEE - COM SUB DO PASS 02/19/96
* SB 852 (Littlefield) - OU HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER. Requires that OUHSC health care professionals who set aside a portion of their salaries for travel expenses to be reimbursed from the set-aside monies; requires that such reimbursement be paid only for the actual amount of meal expenses incurred while such persons are in official travel status as indicated on pertinent receipts.
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/06/96
GOVT OPS & AGENCY OVERSIGHT
SENATE COMMITTEE - DO PASS 02/14/96
* SB 866 (Stipe/Glover) - HEALTH INSURANCE. Subjects medical practitioners to disciplinary penalties for waiver of a deductible or copayment required to be made to the practitioner by an insured under a policy, contract, or agreement, with certain exceptions. (36 § 6055)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/06/96
BUSINESS & LABOR
SENATE COMMITTEE - DO PASS AS AMENDED 02/13/96
LAID OVER - SENATE 02/14/96
* SB 869 (Haney/Steidley) - BUDGET. Requires that notice of budget-work-program revisions be made available electronically to the staff of the Joint Legislative Committee on Budget and Program Oversight. (62 § 41.7c)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/05/96
APPROPRIATIONS
* SB 877 (Harrison/Taylor) - SPECIAL AGENCY ACCOUNT. Changes the termination date to July 1, 2002, for various sunset entities including the Special Agency Account Board. (74 § 3903)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/06/96
SUNSET REVIEW
* SB 881 (Harrison/Taylor) - OETA. Re-creates the Oklahoma Educational Television Authority until July 1, 2002 . (70 § 23-105)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/06/96
SUNSET REVIEW
SENATE COMMITTEE - DO PASS 02/14/96
* SB 883 (Shurden) - WASTE DISPOSAL. Decreases certain solid waste disposal fees to 50 cents per ton. (63 § 1-2305)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/06/96
ENERGY, ENV. RES. & REG AFFAIR
02/22/96: DO PASS (UNOFFICIAL)
* SB 887 (Monson) - BENEFITS. Shell bill relating to the purpose of the State Employees Benefits Act. (74 § 1362)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/05/96
RULES
* SB 888 (Monson) - HEALTH INSURANCE. Provides for the State and Education Employees Group Insurance Board to authorize payment for Medicare risk-sharing contracts. (74 § 1316.2)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/05/96
APPROPRIATIONS
* SB 890 (Monson) - OU MANAGED CARE. Provides that the portion of insurance premium tax assessed on the premiums of Medicaid recipients collected from the OU Managed Care Plan shall be paid by the 30th day of the month to the credit of the Medicaid Contingency Revolving Fund. (36 § 631)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/05/96
APPROPRIATIONS
* SB 896 (Monson/Roberts) - HEALTH CARE. Modifies the powers and duties of the Oklahoma Health Care Authority; authorizes the State Employee Benefits Council to promulgate rules necessary to carry out the Oklahoma State Employees Benefits Act; requires the Council to develop state and education employee health care benefit plans. (74 § 1362)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/05/96
APPROPRIATIONS
SENATE COMMITTEE - DO PASS AS AMENDED 02/19/96
* SB 900 (Muegge) - FEE WAIVER. Extends to July 1, 2006, the date of acceptance of applications for vocational-technical education tuition waivers from qualified farmers and ranchers. (2 § 2002)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/05/96
RULES
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE 02/21/96
APPROPRIATIONS
* SB 908 (Leftwich/Blackburn) - FEE WAIVER. Provides for a fee waiver at State System institutions for children of state employees who have given their lives in the line of duty. The amendment added new language which provided that "this section shall only apply when all other grants and scholarships available to such children of deceased peace officers, deceased firefighters and deceased state employees have been exhausted." (70 § 3218.7)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/06/96
EDUCATION
SENATE COMMITTEE - DO PASS AS AMENDED 02/12/96
* SB 910 (Monson) - HEALTH CARE. Shell bill relating to the State and Education Employees Group Insurance Act, the Oklahoma State Employees Benefits Act, and the Oklahoma Health Care Authority. (74 § 1303)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/05/96
APPROPRIATIONS
* SB 922 (Monson) - HEALTH CARE. Transfers the State Employee Assistance Program from the Office of Personnel Management to the State and Education Employees Group Insurance; requires the Oklahoma State Employees Benefits Council, in selecting HMOs, to consider plan characteristics, provider network, geographic coverage and access and price; requires that HMO contracts provide for a risk adjustment factor for adverse selection; expands duties of the Council; provides an exemption from certain provisions of the State Employees Benefits Act for employees and officers of the State System for Higher Education; authorizes a State System institution to elect to come under provisions of the act. (74 § 840-2.10)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/05/96
APPROPRIATIONS
* SB 935 (Wright) - INSURANCE FUND. Appropriates $200,000 to the Office of State Finance for conducting a detailed study of the State Insurance Fund and to make recommendations concerning the sale or privatization of the fund.
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/05/96
APPROPRIATIONS
* SB 936 (Wright) - INSURANCE BOARD PRIVATIZATION. Appropriates $200,000 to the Office of State Finance for conducting a detailed study of the State Employees and Educators Group Insurance Board and to make recommendations concerning the sale or privatization of the fund.
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/05/96
APPROPRIATIONS
* SB 941 (Monson) - RETIREMENT. Shell bill relating to the Teachers' Retirement System. (70 § 17-101)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SEN COM RULES 02/05/96
COMMITTEE REASSIGNMENT APPROPRIATIONS 02/07/96
* SB 945 (Hendrick) - HEALTH CARE. Creates the Patient Protection Act; requires managed care plans to provide prospective enrollees with a written description of the terms and conditions of the plan; requires description to delineate an enrollee's rights under the plan; provides that if the plan uses a capitation method of compensation, the plan must establish and follow certain procedures; requires plans to provide to the state commissioner of heath an explanation of its provider network configuration; prohibits managed care plans from using a financial incentive program that limits medically necessary and appropriate services; requires each plan to establish a mechanism under which physicians or dentists participating in the plan provide consultation and advice on the plan's medical or dental policy; requires that each physician or dentist under consideration for inclusion in a plan be reviewed by a credentialing committee; prohibits plans from excluding a provider solely because of the anticipated characteristics of the patients of that provider; requires plans to cover certain services; outlines requirements for point-of-service plans; requires the state health commissioner to issue an annual report to consumers on the performance of managed care entities. (63 § 2531)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/05/96
HUMAN RESOURCES
* SB 948 (Penny Williams) - LEAVE SHARING. This is a shell bill relating to leave-sharing programs. (70 § 6-104.6)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/05/96
RULES
* SB 954 (Hendrick) - SCHOOL LAND FUNDS. Requires that quarterly financial reports of the Commissioners of the Land Office include several relevant measures of investment value, and contain combined and individual rates of return of the investment managers by category of investment. (64 § 51)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/05/96
APPROPRIATIONS
* SB 958 (Stipe) - INSURANCE FUND. This is a shell bill referring to the State Insurance Fund. (85 § 131)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SEN. COM. RULES 02/05/96
* SB 960 (Stipe) - HEALTH INSURANCE. Provides that when contracting with educational entities in setting health insurance premiums for active employees and retirees under 65 years of age, health care plans shall set the monthly premium for active employees at $72 less than the monthly premium for retirees under 65 years of age; outlines same requirement for plans under the State and Education Employees Group Insurance Board and the State Employee Benefits Council. (74 § 1306)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/05/96
APPROPRIATIONS
* SB 964 (Wright) - PURCHASING. Appropriates $200,000 to the Office of State Finance for conducting a detailed study of the Central Purchasing Division system and to make recommendation for improvement, enhancement, or privatization of the system.
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/05/96
APPROPRIATIONS
* SB 965 (Hendrick/Roach) - BENEFITS. Modifies the authority of the State Employee Benefits Council; provides that a benefit price shall be excessive if, for two consecutive years, it is more than 140 percent of the average benefit price for the particular benefit level with which the benefit price competes. (74 § 1371)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/05/96
APPROPRIATIONS
SENATE COMMITTEE - DO PASS AS AMENDED 02/19/96
* SB 969 (Littlefield) - HEALTH INSURANCE. Requires health insurance policies to provide coverage for in vitro fertilization procedures, subject to certain conditions. (36 § 6060.1)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/05/96
HUMAN RESOURCES
* SB 970 (Helton) - HEALTH CARE. Creates a 24-member Oklahoma Health Care Advisory Commission until June 30, 2000, to study any administrative directives or rules which affect the delivery of health care in Oklahoma. (63 § 5001.1)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/05/96
HUMAN RESOURCES
* SB 1001 (Robinson) - MEDICAL RESEARCH. This is a shell bill relating to the Medical Technology and Research Authority. (74 § 7050)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/05/96
RULES
* SB 1003 (Price) - AD VALOREM. This is a shell bill relating to Ad Valorem taxes. (68 § 2802)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/05/96
RULES
* SB 1022 (Henry) - JURY DUTY. Prohibits an educational institution from taking or permitting to be taken any adverse academic action against a student because of the student's jury service. (38 § 37)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/05/96
JUDICIARY
* SB 1030 (Price/Leist) - OSU FOOD/AG RESEARCH. Creates a 10-member Industry Advisory Committee to the Oklahoma Food and Agricultural Products Research and Technology Center located at OSU; requires the committee to assist and advise the center in prioritizing projects so that the center may meet the needs of the state's value-added processing entities; requires the center director to call the first meeting of the committee by Nov. 1, 1996. The committee substitute creates a 16-member committee, with the Dean of OSU's Division of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources an ex officio non-voting member. The first meeting is to be called by the Dean. (2 § 5-60)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/06/96
AGRICULTURE & RURAL DVLPMNT
SENATE COMMITTEE - COM SUB DO PASS 02/20/96
* SB 1040 (Hendrick) - HEALTH INSURANCE. Requires HMOs, self-insured plans, and prepaid plans when contracting with educational entities, for plan years beginning July 1, 1997, in setting health insurance premiums for active employees and for retirees under 65 years of age, to set the monthly premium for active employees at $90 less than the monthly premium for such retirees. (74 § 1306)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/05/96
APPROPRIATIONS
* SB 1042 (Maddox) - WORKERS' COMPENSATION. For workers' compensation purposes, provides for six weeks of compensation for soft tissue injuries requiring surgery, 13 weeks of temporary total compensation if the surgery involves the spinal cord or any of its nerves, discs or vertebrae; increases penalties for employers who fail to secure workers' compensation for employees. (85 § 22)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/05/96
JUDICIARY
* SB 1046 (Don Williams) - EQUINE ACTIVITIES. Provides that any person participating in equestrian activities shall assume the risk and legal responsibility for any negligent injury to the person or property of the participant caused by hazards inherent in recreational equestrian activities, unless the injury was proximately caused by the negligence of the person providing the recreational equestrian activities to the participant or the failure to guard or warn against a dangerous condition, use, structure, or activity by the person providing the recreational equestrian activities or the person's agents or employees. (23 § 12.1)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/05/96
JUDICIARY
* SB 1068 (Leftwich) - HEALTH CARE. Requires that comprehensive health services provided by HMOs and prepaid health plans, with respect to chiropractic services, be provided on a referral basis at the request of an enrollee who has a condition which is orthopedic or neurological in nature, if a referral is necessary in the judgment of the primary care physician and treatment for the condition falls within the scope of practice of a licensed chiropractic physician. (63 § 2505)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/05/96
HUMAN RESOURCES
* SB 1077 (Ed Long) - CONTRACTS. Modifies the definition of "public construction contract" for competitive bidding purposes to change the contract amount from $7,500 to $15,000; increases from $100 to $500 the monetary amount of certain items required to be included in the Department of Central Services inventory. (61 § 102)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/06/96
GOVT OPS & AGENCY OVERSIGHT
* SB 1078 (Maddox) - HEALTH CARE. Creates the Consumer Choice Act of 1996; states legislative intent to allow providers to participate in health benefit plans; prohibits a health care insurer from imposing a monetary advantage or penalty under a health benefit plan that would affect a beneficiary's choice of a doctor of medicine or a doctor of osteopathy when such physician is a participant in the health benefit plan; prohibits such insurers from imposing upon a beneficiary any co-payment, fee or condition that is not equally imposed upon all beneficiaries in the same benefit category, class, or co-payment level under such plan when the beneficiary is receiving services from a participating M.D. or D.O. pursuant to such plan. (63 § 5030.1)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/05/96
HUMAN RESOURCES
* SB 1094 (Henry) - ENVIRONMENT. Makes it unlawful to apply pesticides in a public building without first posting warning signs at least 24 hours prior to the application; requires that warning signs be left in place for 14 days following the application; requires that such signs include information as to the type of chemicals and the active ingredients being applied. (2 § 3-62.1)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/06/96
AGRICULTURE & RURAL DVLPMNT
* SB 1096 (Maddox) - HEALTH INSURANCE. Creates the Fairness in Managed Care Act; requires the State Board of Health to establish a process for certification of qualified managed care plans and of qualified use overview programs; requires the board to promulgate rules identifying procedures for periodic review and recertification of such plans and programs; requires the Commissioner of Health to terminate the certification of a previously qualified plan or program which no longer meets requirements for certification; specifies requirements for qualified plans; authorizes qualified managed care plans that limit coverage for out-of-network services to offer to all eligible enrollees coverage for such services through a "point-of-service" plan; authorizes such plans to charge an alternative premium for point-of-service coverage that takes into account the actuarial value of such coverage. (63 § 2530.1)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/05/96
HUMAN RESOURCES
* SB 1100 (Don Williams/Anthony) - EDUCATION REFORM. An education reform initiative; Sections 39 and 40 create the Advanced Placement Incentive Program. (70 § 1210.702)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/06/96
EDUCATION
SENATE COMMITTEE - DO PASS AS AMENDED 02/21/96
* SB 1106 (Herbert) - HEALTH INSURANCE. Requires legislative authorization of any insurance deemed necessary by the State and Education Employees Group Insurance Board; gives the State Employees Benefits Council the exclusive responsibility and authority to select and contract with health maintenance organizations for consideration by participants as an alternative to health plans offered by the board. (74 § 1306)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/05/96
APPROPRIATIONS
* SB 1108 (Mickle) - HEALTH INSURANCE. This is a shell bill relating to the State and Education Employees Group Insurance Board. (74 § 1303)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/05/96
RULES
* SB 1127 (Herbert) - CARL ALBERT INTERNSHIP. This is a shell bill referring to the Carl Albert Public Internship Program. (74 § 840-3.7)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/05/96
RULES
* SB 1129 (Wright) - CABINET ORGANIZATION. Changes the name of the Executive Branch Reform Act of 1986 to the Cabinet Organization Act; deletes the time limit for each Governor to create a cabinet system for the executive branch of government; allows cabinet secretaries' salaries to be paid from funds available to an agency within the cabinet area; requires that each cabinet secretary be entitled to an office and secretary or administrative assistant, to be paid out of funds available to the Governor's office or an agency within the respective cabinet area; expands duties of cabinet secretaries to include implementation of policies of the Governor which are consistent with the Constitution and statutes; authorizes cabinet secretaries to enforce state and federal laws in the event a state agency fails to enforce such laws which would cause federal sanctions against the state or an agency or political subdivision of the state; changes the name of the Education Oversight Board to the Education Oversight Advisory Board; makes the Secretary of Education the chief executive officer of the Office of Accountability; requires that the Governor create a cabinet area for education; repeals section relating to the Office of the Secretary of Education. (70 § 3-116)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/05/96 APPROPRIATIONS
* SB 1130 (Dickerson) - UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS. Requires that a plan be provided when a reduction-in-force occurs in a state agency, whether subject to the Merit System of Personnel Administration or the unclassified service; makes such plan subject to approval of the Office of Personnel Management; provides for eligibility for priority reemployment consideration for certain employees of the University Hospitals Authority who are terminated after Feb. 1, 1996; provides a severance package for state employees who are separated from employment as a result of the privatization of their positions in order to effectuate the orderly transfer of services provided at the University Hospitals; requires the authority, prior to any official action, to notify the University Hospitals Advisory Committee of any reduction-in-force of employees which shall be approved or disapproved within 10 working days by the administrator of the Office of Personnel Management; provides minimum guidelines to be followed during internal agency investigations of state employees, when such investigations are conducted by or initiated at the request of the employing agency, with exceptions; authorizes payroll deductions for membership dues or contributions to the Oklahoma Public Employees Association or any other statewide association limited to state employee membership with a minimum membership of 1,000 dues-paying members. (62 § 7.10)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/05/96
APPROPRIATIONS
* SB 1134 (Kerr) - STATE REGENTS. Shell bill relating to the State Regents for Higher Education. (70 § 3203)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/05/96
RULES
COMMITTEE REASSIGNMENT 02/12/96
EDUCATION
* SB 1144 (Shedrick) - HEALTH CARE. Shell bill relating to the Health Care Information System Act. (63 § 1-121)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/05/96
RULES
* SB 1149 (Wright) - CLAIMS. Modifies the required minimum balance for the canceled warrant fund; authorizes the Director of State Finance to establish alternative procedures for the settlement of claims through the Office of State Finance when deemed more advantageous, deletes the requirement for pre-auditing of certain claims; requires certain government entities which are included in the state comprehensive annual finance report and receive public funds to file an audit with the Director of State Finance no later than four months after the end of the entity's fiscal year; increases the amount of in-state travel reimbursement for a portion of a day under the State Travel Reimbursement Act. (62 § 7.2)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/05/96
APPROPRIATIONS
* SB 1159 (Rubottom) - JOB TRAINING. Creates the Oklahoma Youth Training Employment Freedom Act; provides an exemption from certain limitations on working hours for persons employed under the act; states purpose to advance school-to-work efforts by expanding job opportunities for persons 14 to 18 years of age; provides for certified youth training employment agreements; allows school districts to receive full average daily membership on student participating in such an agreement; authorizes academic credit for participants; authorizes the Secretary of Education, the Department of Education, the Department of Vocational and Technical Education or an area vocational-technical school or school district to publish a model of the contractual agreement for the convenience of youth, educators, families and employers; requires employers entering into such agreements to provide insurance coverage for youth training employees; provides for alternative coverage. (40 § 76)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/05/96
EDUCATION
* SB 1162 (Penny Williams/Steidley) - UCT/ROGERS. Transfers supervision of the University Center at Tulsa (UCT) and Rogers State College from their current boards to the Board of Regents of University Center at Tulsa and Rogers State College. The floor substitute declares that UCT and Rogers State College constitute a single institution within the State System; transfers supervision, management and control from separate governing boards to the Board of Regents of University Center at Tulsa and Rogers State College; provides a five-year window within which a resident or student may file a civil action for a declaration that the Board has not governed the facilities in a proper manner; creates a Board of Regents for University Center at Tulsa and Rogers State College; allows members who currently serve on either board to continue to serve on the new board until their terms expire. (70 § 4651)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/05/96
EDUCATION
SENATE COMMITEE - DO PASS 02/19/96
BILL AND EMERGENCY PASSED - SENATE 02/20/96
(45 AYE / 0 NAY / 0 ABSENT / 3 EXCUSED / 0 NOT VOTING)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/21/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/22/96
EDUCATION
* SB 1164 (Horner/Betty Boyd) - OHLAP. Adds that students eligible for OHLAP may have graduated from the Oklahoma School of Science and Mathematics; authorizes the State Regents to develop criteria for determining students' award eligibility for the Oklahoma Higher Learning Access Program (OHLAP) upon completion of seven semesters of high school coursework; modifies criteria under which 10th-grade students shall be eligible to begin participating in the program; requires student to provide their social security numbers or high school student identification numbers to the State Regents, who shall keep the numbers confidential and use them only for administrative purposes. (70 § 2603)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/05/96
EDUCATION
SENATE COMMITTEE - DO PASS AS AMENDED 02/07/96
BILL AND EMERGENCY PASSED - SENATE 02/12/96
(48 AYE / 0 NAY / 0 ABSENT / 0 EXCUSED / 0 NOT VOTING)
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/14/96
APPROPRIATIONS & BUDGET
* SB 1166 (Ed Long/Voskuhl) - HEALTH INSURANCE. Requires insurance plans which require payment of a copayment to disclose to the insured whether copayments are based on discounted or nondiscounted charges; requires disclosure of the exact amount paid to the practitioner, hospital or other health care provider and the method for calculating the copayment. The amendment inserts that "in no case shall the payment for services under the policy, contract or agreement and the co-payment made by the insured or enrollee be more than the actual amount which has been or will be paid to the practitioner, hospital or other provider of health care services; provided, however, in no case shall the co-payment be based on a higher figure than either the amount billed or the amount paid, whichever is less." (36 § 6055)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/05/96
HUMAN RESOURCES
SENATE COMMITTEE - DO PASS AS AMENDED 02/19/96
* SB 1176 (Robinson) - HEALTH INSURANCE. Shell bill relating to the State and Education Employees Group Insurance Board. (74 § 1303)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/05/96
RULES
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE 02/19/96
APPROPRIATIONS
* SB 1188 (Penny Williams) - OKLAHOMA FUTURES. Shell bill relating Oklahoma Futures. (74 § 5002.1)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/05/96
RULES
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE 02/14/96
INFRASTRUCTURE & STRAT. PLANN
GENERAL ORDER - SENATE 02/22/96
* SB 1206 (Shedrick) - TEACHER CERTIFICATION. Shell bill relating to renewal of standard teaching certificates. (70 § 6-154.1)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/05/96
RULES
* SB 1216 (Cain) - HEALTH INSURANCE. Shell bill relating to the Health Care Information System Act. (63 § 1-116)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/05/96
RULES
* SB 1221 (Brown/Vaughn) - PSYCHOLOGIST LICENSE. In the Psychologists Licensing Act, adds a "master's psychologist"; requires the completion of a master's program in psychology. (59 § 1352)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/05/96
BUSINESS & LABOR
SENATE COMMITTEE - DO PASS AS AMENDED 02/19/96
* SB 1228 (Price/Clay Pope) - RETIREMENT. Authorizes current contributing OTRS members, who as former members, withdrew their accumulated contributions to amortize the cost of returning the withdrawn contributions or unremitted contributions over a maximum period of 60 months. (70 § 17-116.8)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/05/96
APPROPRIATIONS
SENATE COMMITTEE - DO PASS 02/19/96
* SB 1229 (Herbert) - SCHOOL LANDS. Provides for the termination on July 1, 2001, of the authority of the Commissioners of the Land Office to institute projects to develop and improve state school lands categorized as commercial lands. (64 § 1.1)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/05/96
APPROPRIATIONS
* SB 1237 (Penny Williams/Voskuhl) - CHILDREN/YOUTH SERVICES. Creates the Family Centered and Community Designed Services Act; states legislative intent that the act provide the framework for implementation and establishment of locally designed service delivery systems for children and families. (10 § 601.7)
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/05/96
HUMAN RESOURCES
HOUSE COMMITTEE DO PASS AS AMENDED 02/15/96
* SB 1238 (Monson) - HEALTH INSURANCE. Creates the Managed Care Plan Quality Assurance Act; requires managed care plans to establish and operate processes to assess the quality of health provided; requires plans to maintain an internal quality management and improvement system. (63 § 2531)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/05/96
HUMAN RESOURCES
02/22/96: DO PASS (UNOFFICIAL)
* SB 1241 (Herbert) - SCHOOL LANDS. Shell bill relating to certain lands administered by the Commissioners of the Land Office. (64 §76)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/05/96
RULES
* SB 1266 (Robinson) - MEDICAL RECORDS. Authorizes physicians, hospitals and other medical professionals and institutions to charge a maximum $15 fee for searching, retrieving, reviewing and preparing medical records in order to determine which medical records are to be copied. (76 § 19)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/05/96
JUDICIARY
* SB 1288 (Brown) - HEALTH INSURANCE. Shell bill relating to the Health Care Authority Act. (63 § 5006)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/05/96
RULES
* SB 1289 (Cain/Anthony) - HEALTH INSURANCE. Deletes the requirement that certain savings by the Oklahoma Health Care Authority be used to increase health care benefits. (63 § 5011)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/05/96
HUMAN RESOURCES
SENATE COMMITTEE - DO PASS 02/15/96
* SB 1308 (Snyder) - WORKERS' COMPENSATION. Allows employers to secure workers' compensation for employees through a certified alternate equivalent coverage program. (36 § 707)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/05/96
JUDICIARY
* SB 1310 (Shedrick) - WORKERS' COMPENSATION. Prohibits the Commissioner of Health from certifying workplace medical plans unless they meet or exceed medical treatment guidelines and protocols and utilization controls established for use by medical service providers and physicians contracting under a plan recommended by the Physician Advisory Committee. (85 § 14.3)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/05/96
JUDICIARY
* SB 1312 (Rozell/Adair) - PURCHASING. Authorizes the central purchasing director to approve change orders to decrease the amount of goods and services; prohibits any increase from exceeding 10 percent of the original bid amount for all phases or deliveries; increases from $2,500 to $10,000 the amount for contracts exempt from competitive bidding procedures; provides procedures for competitive sealed proposals; provides procedures upon protest of a contract award; authorizes a stay of such award and prescribes circumstances under which a stay is not granted; modifies the authority of the state purchasing director to exempt certain purchases from competitive bidding requirements. (74 § 85.2)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/06/96
DEREGULATION
SENATE COMMITTEE - DO PASS 02/21/96
* SB 1315 (Robinson/Anthony) - TELECOMMUNICATIONS. Requires the Department of Central Services to recognize as a statewide contract an unencumbered contract consummated on behalf of the OneNet telecommunications network by the State Regents or any other state entity assigned responsibility for OneNet by the Legislature; mandates that such recognition require recommendation by the Information Services Division of the Office of State Finance; requires that purchases of computer software maintenance and hardware maintenance contracts for OneNet be coordinated with the Information Services Division of the Office of State Finance. (62 § 41.5e)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/05/96
SCIENCE, TECH. & TELECOMM
SENATE COMMITTEE - DO PASS 02/15/96
* SB 1316 (Wright) - WORKERS' COMPENSATION. Modifies workers' compensation provisions to delete language prohibiting the discharge of an employee during a period of temporary total disability solely on the basis of absence from work; prohibits an employer from receiving permanent partial disability benefits covering the same period of time as Social Security benefits. (85 § 3)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/05/96
JUDICIARY
* SB 1319 (Stipe) - EOSC/MCALESTER. Requires the State Regents to provide college credit courses and programs in McAlester through a branch campus of Eastern Oklahoma State College. (70 § 3511.1)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/05/96
EDUCATION
SENATE JOINT RESOLUTIONS
* SJR 33 (Campbell) - RETIREMENT. Requires that the Oklahoma State and Education Employees Group Insurance Board return to the OTRS $39.6 million, plus interest.
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/05/96
APPROPRIATIONS
* SJR 36 (Penny Williams) - PROPERTY TAX. Proposes a constitutional amendment to modify the procedure for valuation of the homestead and household personal property for heads of households who are 65 years of age and older.
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/05/96
FINANCE
SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONS
* SCR 36 (Smith/Hastings) - TULSA JUNIOR COLLEGE/BONDS. Authorizes the Board of Regents of Tulsa Junior College to issue $12 million in revenue bonds for constructing, remodeling, and expanding the student centers on the Metro Campus and Northeast Campus of Tulsa Junior College.
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/05/96
APPROPRIATIONS
SENATE COMITTEE - DO PASS 02/20/96
* SCR 38 (Robinson/Settle) - CONNORS STATE COLLEGE/BONDS. Authorizes the A&M Board of Regents on behalf of Connors State College to issue $2.5 million in revenue bonds for construction, renovation, and expansion of certain dormitories.
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/05/96
APPROPRIATIONS
SENATE COMMITTEE - DO PASS 02/19/96
* SCR 40 (Cain/Gray) - OSU-OKC/BONDS. Authorizes the A&M Board of Regents on behalf of OSU-OKC to issue $3 million in revenue bonds for construction of an emergency vehicle operating course and classroom facility.
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/08/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/12/96
APPROPRIATIONS
* SCR 42 (Taylor/Johnson) - RETIREMENT. Creates a 16-member OTRS Fiscal Health Task Force to study the current and long-term financial condition of the system and to advise the executive and legislative branches on alternatives to solving funding problems; specifies scope of study; requires that appointments be made by Feb. 16, 1996, and the first meeting be held by Feb. 23; requires the task force to submit a report of findings and recommendations by May 1, 1996, to the Legislature and the Governor.
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/13/96
ADOPTED - SENATE 02/13/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/15/96
RULES
HOUSE COMMITTEE - DO PASS 02/22/96
* SCR 43 (Shedrick/Anthony) - ROY PETERS. Commends Dr. Roy Peters, Jr., State Director of Vocational and Technical Education, for receiving the Outstanding Vocational Educator of the Year award at the 1995 American Vocational Association Convention.
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/14/96
ADOPTED - SENATE 02/19/96
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/19/96
ADOPTED - HOUSE 02/21/96
SIGNED & RETURNED TO SENATE 02/21/96
SENATE RESOLUTIONS
* SR 29 (Campbell) - HOMOSEXUAL LIFESTYLES. Opposes the position of the National Education Association that public schools should celebrate a Lesbian and Gay History Month.
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/05/96
HUMAN RESOURCES
* SR 31 (Campbell) - HOMOSEXUAL LIFESTYLES. Expresses the position of the Senate that homosexuality, lesbianism and bisexuality should not be taught as a natural lifestyle in the public schools.
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/05/96
HUMAN RESOURCES
HOUSE BILLS
* HB 1663 (Davis) - TUITION TRUST. Requires the State Regents to designate the state treasurer as the agent of the Oklahoma Tuition Trust; empowers the state treasurer to invest the monies in the Oklahoma College Tuition Trust Fund; requires the State Regents to adopt rules regarding penalties for procedures relating to default of an advance tuition payment contract; authorizes the State Regents to provide for the transfer of benefits of an advance tuition payment contract from one beneficiary to another and from one institution to another; modifies lump-sum and periodic contribution provisions; outlines alternative higher education programs which may be provided for beneficiaries; prohibits the State Regents, the state, and its agencies from borrowing from the trust fund. (70 § 6001)
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/07/95
APPROPRIATIONS & BUDGET
2ND SESSION CARRYOVER 06/12/95
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 06/13/95
APPROPRIATIONS & BUDGET
* HB 1809 (Hamilton/Haney) - APPROPRIATIONS. Appropriates to the State Regents and the Physician Manpower Training commission.
2ND SESSION CARRYOVER 06/12/95
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 06/13/95
APPROPRIATIONS & BUDGET
HOUSE COMMITTEE - DO PASS 02/22/96
* HB 1810 (Hamilton/Haney) - STATE REGENTS. Relates to certain powers and duties of the State Regents.
2ND SESSION CARRYOVER 06/12/95
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 06/13/95
APPROPRIATIONS & BUDGET
HOUSE COMMITTEE - DO PASS 02/22/96
* HB 1811 (Hamilton/Haney) - PHYSICIAN MANPOWER TRAINING. Sets budgetary limitations for the Physician Manpower Training Commission.
2ND SESSION CARRYOVER 06/12/95
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 06/13/95
APPROPRIATIONS & BUDGET
HOUSE COMMITTEE - DO PASS 02/22/96
* HB 1991 (Roach) - SMOKE DETECTORS. Requires that all new construction of resident dwellings include the installment of battery-powered smoke detectors or the electrical wiring necessary for the installment of electrical smoke detectors. (74 § 324.11a)
2ND SESSION CARRYOVER 06/12/95
WITHDRAWN - FROM CALENDAR, REREFERRED TO COM 06/13/95
PUBLIC HEALTH
HOUSE COMMITTEE - COM SUB DO PASS 02/20/96
* HB 2051 (Laura Boyd) - STUDENT FEES. Changes student health care fee from $46 per semester to "direct cost of service." (70 § 3218.12) (See HB 2187)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/06/96
APPROPRIATIONS & BUDGET
* HB 2052 (Toure/Lewis Long) - MINIMUM WAGE. Increases minimum wage to $5 an hour or the current federal minimum wage, whichever wage is greater. (40 § 197.2)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/06/96
COMMERCE, INDUSTRY & LABOR
HOUSE COMMITTEE - DO PASS 02/22/96
* HB 2054 (Kirby) - ENGLISH LANGUAGE. Recognizes English as the common language of the state; designates English as the language of official public documents and records and official public meetings; provides exceptions; requires that any authorization of the use of other languages in printing informational materials or publications for general distribution be approved in open public meeting by the governing board of the relevant public entity; prohibits the denial of employment by the state or a political subdivision based solely upon a person's lack of facility in a foreign language, except where related to certain bona fide job needs; excludes the private sector from restrictions or requirements regarding language usage other than official documents, forms, submissions or communications directed to government agencies and officers. (25 § 300)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/06/96
RULES
HOUSE COMMITTEE - DO PASS 02/22/96
* HB 2059 (Laura Boyd) - TUITION SAVINGS ACCOUNT. Repeals the Tuition Trust Act and enacts the Oklahoma Tuition Savings Account Act which states legislative intent to encourage post-secondary education and the means by which education be paid; allows state residents to deposit a maximum $5,000 during each taxable year into a tuition savings account; provides an income tax exemption for such contributions and interest thereon; requires accounts to be established as trusts and placed with an account trustee; provides for distribution of funds for eligible tuition expenses. (70 §§ 6020) (See HB 2639)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/06/96
APPROPRIATIONS & BUDGET
02/21/96: DO PASS (UNOFFICIAL)
* HB 2060 (Laura Boyd) - TUITION/FEES. This is a shell bill relating to higher education general enrollment fees and nonresident tuition. (70 § 3218.8)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/06/96
APPROPRIATIONS & BUDGET
* HB 2065 (Cox) - ATHLETIC TRAINERS. Modifies definition of "athletic trainer" so that the term no longer specifies someone who is employed by an educational institution or organized amateur athletic association. (59 § 526)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/06/96
PUBLIC HEALTH
HOUSE COMMITTEE - COM SUB DO PASS 02/14/96
* HB 2071 (Hager) - HEALTH INSURANCE. Requires the advisory committee to the State and Education Employees Group Insurance Board to develop and monitor statistical measurements relating to all aspects of the plans offered by the board; requires the board, upon request of the advisory committee, to provide any information available to a member of the board. (74 § 1304)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/06/96
RULES
* HB 2083 (Settle) - JURY DUTY. Requires employers to pay the full regular salary of employees during jury service, unless the employer can show by clear and convincing evidence that such payment would create an undue hardship on the employer; allows an employer to reduce such salary by the amount the employee receives as payment for jury service. (38 § 37)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/06/96
APPROPRIATIONS & BUDGET
* HB 2087 (Roberts/Monson) - RETIREMENT. Authorizes the State Auditor, the Director of Public Affairs, and the State Treasurer to name designees to serve on the Oklahoma State Pension Commission. (74 § 941)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/06/96
RETIREMENT LAWS
HOUSE COMMITTEE - COM SUB DO PASS 02/15/96
* HB 2088 (Roberts) - RETIREMENT/INSURANCE BENEFITS. Provides that, if the basic life insurance amount is increased, a retiree shall have 30 days in which to make an election to continue the increased basic life insurance amount by paying the full cost of the life insurance at the rate and under such terms and conditions as established by the State and Education Employees Group Life Insurance Board; provides that, if the retiree does not make an election, the person shall retain the ability to make payment for the life insurance amount in effect prior to any increase in coverage. (74 § 1316.1)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/06/96
RULES
HOUSE COMMITTEE - COM SUB DO PASS 02/15/96
* HB 2093 (Roberts) - RETIREMENT. This is a shell bill pertaining to the OTRS. (70 § 17-102)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/06/96
RETIREMENT LAWS
* HB 2104 (Greenwood) - FLAGS. Encourages that flags commemorating the April 19, 1995, bombing of the Murrah Federal Building be flown throughout the state the week of each year in which April 19 falls, beginning on Sunday through the following Saturday; authorizes the Governor to choose which commemorative flag may be flown on state property each year; adds a Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building commemorative flag to flags authorized to be displayed on publicly owned premises. (25 § 93.2)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/06/96
RULES
HOUSE COMMITTEE - DO PASS 02/15/96
* HB 2105 (Greenwood) - STUDENT TESTING. Provides that the term "perform satisfactorily" for purposes of norm-referenced and criterion-referenced testing of students shall mean that the student obtained a score of 80 percent or above on the test. (70 § 1210.508)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/06/96
EDUCATION
* HB 2109 (Erwin) - RETIREMENT. Returns the calculation for acquisition of military service credit in OTRS to the method used before Jan. 1, 1991; authorizes a member to make up the 5-percent contributions for a maximum five years of military service by electing to pay the contributions on the basis of the rate of pay in his contract as a teacher at the time the military service commenced or, in the case of a teacher who was not teaching prior to entering the military, on the basis of the salary of the first year of teaching after being honorably discharged. (70 § 17-116.2)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/06/96
RETIREMENT LAWS
* HB 2127 (Mitchell) - FEE WAIVER. Provides for a waiver of general enrollment fees and nonresident tuition for a maximum five years for children of state employees who have given their lives in the line of duty. (70 § 3218.7a)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/06/96
APPROPRIATIONS & BUDGET
* HB 2139 (Taylor/Harrison) - SPECIAL AGENCY ACCOUNT. Re-creates the Special Agency Account Board until July 1, 2002. (62 § 7.2)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/06/96
SUNSET REVIEW:
HOUSE COMMITTEE - DO PASS 02/06/96
BILL PASSED - HOUSE 02/12/96
(89 AYE / 5 NAY / 0 ABSENT / 7 EXCUSED / 0 NOT VOTING)
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/14/96
SUNSET REVIEW
* HB 2146 (McCorkell/Fisher) - ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. This is a shell bill enacting the Economic Development Reform Act. The committee substitute enacts an "Economic Development Act of 1996" to help small businesses.
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/06/96
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
HOUSE COMMITTEE - COM SUB DO PASS 02/21/96
* HB 2147 (McCorkell) - ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. This is a shell bill enacting the Economic Development Reform Act. The committee substitute creates the "Procurement Procedures Act" to assure the most efficient and economic use of state funds, to assure greater accountability by state agencies and to assure individuals and private businesses doing business with the state of equitable, consistent treatment; exempts various entities from the act, including public higher education institutions.
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/06/96
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
HOUSE COMMITTEE - COM SUB DO PASS 02/21/96
* HB 2148 (McCorkell) - ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. This is a shell bill enacting the Economic Development Reform Act.
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/06/96
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
* HB 2164 (Steidley) - STUDENT FEES. Requires each State System institution to annually publish all tuition and fees charged at that institution; requires that the publication be provided free of charge to any person requesting any information relating to tuition or fees at that institution. (70 § 3219.1)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/06/96
APPROPRIATIONS & BUDGET
02/21/96: DO PASS (UNOFFICIAL)
* HB 2165 (Steidley) - HEALTH INSURANCE. Requires that all contracts between hospitals and the State and Education Employees Group Insurance Board provide that payment by the board for medical services and treatment be the lesser of 80 percent of the fee schedule allowable or the billed charges. (74 § 3104)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/06/96
RULES
HOUSE COMMITTEE - DO PASS 02/22/96
* HB 2176 (McCorkell) - PURCHASING. This is a shell bill relating to the Central Purchasing Act. (74 § 85.1)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/06/96
APPROPRIATIONS & BUDGET
* HB 2180 (Thomas) - HEALTH INSURANCE. Shell bill relating to the Health and Dental Insurance Reserve Fund. (74 § 1312)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/06/96
RULES
* HB 2187 (Greenwood) - STUDENT FEES. Directs the State Regents to promulgate rules providing guidelines for institutions to determine that students with adequate health care coverage do not have to pay a student health care fee. (70 § 3218.12) (See HB 2051)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/06/96
APPROPRIATIONS & BUDGET
* HB 2188 (Greenwood) - HEALTH PLANS. Requires any funds remaining in a medical savings account at the end of a tax year after all medical expenses have been paid, unless withdrawn, to remain in the account to be used by the account holder for payment of future medical expenses; provides for the transfer of a medical savings account of any employee who is no longer employed by an employer participating in a medical savings account program; modifies the State Employees Benefits Act to expand expenses included in an employee's salary adjustment agreement pursuant to a flexible benefits plan to include premiums for a high-deductible health benefit plan; requires the State and Education Employees Group Insurance Board to offer a high-deductible health benefit plan with the same co-payments, coinsurance and benefit limits as the basic benefit level but with a higher deductible amount; authorizes an employee participating in a deferred compensation plan to transfer any or all of the amount in an investment option to a medical savings account. (74 § 1371)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/06/96
RULES
HOUSE COMMITTEE - DO PASS 02/22/96
* HB 2189 (Begley) - HEALTH INSURANCE. Requires the State and Education Group Insurance Board, unless it has otherwise contracted with an out-of-state hospital, to pay for medical services and treatment rendered by an out-of-state hospital at the same level paid to an in-state hospital if the insured employee was referred to the out-of-state hospital by a physician and the out-of-state hospital is the closest hospital in proximity to the place of residence of the employee. (74 § 1304)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/06/96
RULES
HOUSE COMMITTEE - DO PASS 02/15/96
* HB 2190 (Begley) - YOUTH APPRENTICESHIP. Shell bill pertaining to the youth apprenticeship program guidelines. (70 § 14-127)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/06/96
EDUCATION
HOUSE COMMITTEE - DO PASS 02/21/96
* HB 2191 (Hager) - ACADEMIC FORGIVENESS. States legislative intent to authorize an academic forgiveness program in which credits earned more than 10 years ago will not be considered for admission purposes. (70 § 3207.2)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COM EDUCATION 02/06/96
* HB 2192 (Hager/Ed Long) - YOUTH APPRENTICESHIP. Shell bill pertaining to the Youth Apprenticeship Committee. (70 § 14-128)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/06/96
EDUCATION
HOUSE COMMITTEE - DO PASS 02/21/96
* HB 2196 (Wells) - NATIONAL GUARD FEE WAIVER. Provides statutory authorization for waiving general enrollment fees and nonresident tuition for Oklahoma National Guard members. (70 § 3218.7a)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/06/96
APPROPRIATIONS & BUDGET
* HB 2211 (Hutchison) - DRUG/ALCOHOL TESTING. This is a shell bill pertaining to definitions in the Standards for Workplace Drug and Alcohol Testing Act. (40 § 552) (See HB 2370)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/06/96
COMMERCE, INDUSTRY & LABOR
* HB 2218 (Fields) - HEALTH INSURANCE Requires the State and Education Employees Group Insurance Board and HMOs under contract with the board, in setting health insurance premiums for active employees and retirees under 65 years of age and effective beginning with the plan year beginning July 1, 1997, to start the monthly premium for active employees at $72 less than the monthly premium for retirees under age 65. (74 § 1306)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/06/96
RULES
* HB 2219 (Fields) - PLUMBING CODE. Requires state and political subdivisions, upon official publication of an international plumbing code, to adopt such code. (59 § 1002)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/06/96
COMMERCE, INDUSTRY & LABOR
* HB 2231 (Voskuhl/Penny Williams) - CHILDREN/YOUTH SERVICES. Modifies the membership of the Oklahoma Planning and Coordinating Council for Services to Children and Youth, which includes a member from the State Regents. The committee substitute states legislative intent that the purpose of the act is to engage businesses, service providers, volunteers, educators and families in planning, policy and priority setting, community development and servicing families in their own community and, through community partnerships, assure that there is a coordinated effort among agencies, groups and organizations within the community to identify and fill service gaps within their community, provide for a collaborative system of community services and provided for the delivery of wrap-around services to children and families that require such services; creates a State Management Team for planning and implementing local service systems. (10 § 601.71)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/06/96
CHILDREN YOUTH & FAMILY SVCS
HOUSE COMMITTEE - COM SUB DO PASS 02/22/96
* HB 2235 (Roberts) - HEALTH INSURANCE. This is a shell bill pertaining to the Life Insurance Reserve Fund of the State and Education Employees Group Insurance Plan. (74 § 1312.2)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/06/96
RULES
* HB 2246 (Weese) - OPEN MEETING. Modifies the circumstances regarding permissible use of executive sessions under the Open Meeting Act; prohibits a presentation to the public body from being considered an individual proceeding for purposes of conducting an executive session if a person has requested that a public body consider an action that does not directly affect the person; requires that such meetings be conducted as open meetings. (25 § 307)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/06/96
JUDICIARY
HOUSE COMMITTEE - DO PASS 02/13/96
* HB 2248 (Weese) - OPEN MEETING. This is a shell bill relating to executive sessions authorized by the Open Meeting Act. (25 § 307)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/06/96
JUDICIARY
* HB 2254 (McCorkell) - BENEFITS. Creates a task force to study and recommend to the legislature for implementation a benefit system to provide 24-hour health and disability coverage; requires that the system function as an alternative to workers' compensation coverage for employers who would opt to cover their employees in said system. The committee substitute extends the life of the Advisory Committee on Workers' Compensation; expands responsibilities to include studying and developing recommendations for the cost-effective implementation of a voluntary 24-hour coverage plan; defines such plan to mean a system of medical coverage, disability coverage and death and dismemberment coverage to protect an employee 24 hours a day; specifies issues to be addressed in the study; requires the committee to make report by Jan. 1, 1998. (85 § 114)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/06/96
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
HOUSE COMMITTEE - COM SUB DO PASS 02/21/96
* HB 2256 (Askins) - WORKERS' COMPENSATION. Requires any person entitled to receive workers' compensation benefits to report in writing to the employer or the employer's insurance carrier any change in a material fact, improvement in the person's physical condition or income earned or received from any type of employment and the names and addresses of any employer. (85 § 22.1)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/06/96
JUDICIARY
* HB 2258 (Paulk) - CONTRACTS. Requires a maximum 5-percent preference in the award of public contracts for contractors domiciled in the state; provides for factors to be considered for determination of domicile. (61 § 14)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/06/96
COMMERCE, INDUSTRY & LABOR
* HB 2261 (Laura Boyd/Monson) - HEALTH INSURANCE. Requires individual and group health insurance policies providing coverage on an expense-incurred basis, and individual and group service or indemnity-type contracts issued by a nonprofit corporation which provides coverage for a female at least 35 years of age, except for policies that provide coverage for specified disease or other limited-benefit coverage, to include coverage for a routine bone-density test to certain qualified insureds; prohibits such test from being subject to policy deductibles, co-payments or co-insurance limits of the plan. The committee substitute adds language requiring that the bone density test be requested by a primary care or referral physician. (36 § 6060.1)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/06/96
INSURANCE
HOUSE COMMITTEE - COM SUB DO PASS 02/20/96
* HB 2275 (Ramsey) - INCOME TAX DEDUCTION/TUITION. Provides an income tax deduction for the amount of tuition, fees, books, if purchased at a retail facility owned and operated by the school, and housing costs, including meals if the housing and meals are provided by the school, paid to a public college, university or vocational and technical education institution in the state; prohibits a deduction for amounts paid by or through a grant, scholarship, stipend, employer reimbursement or payment, or any amount subject to a tuition waiver; limits the deduction to those taxable years in which the student maintains an overall grade point average of 2.5 or better. (68 § 2358) (See HB 2748)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/06/96
APPROPRIATIONS & BUDGET
* HB 2276 (Ramsey) - VALEDICTORIAN SCHOLARSHIPS. States legislative intent that institutions that award scholarships to high-school valedictorians require a certain ACT score to qualify. (70 § 2283)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/06/96
APPROPRIATIONS & BUDGET
* HB 2285 (Bastin) - JURY DUTY. Provides an exemption from jury duty for persons who have legal custody of a child under the age of 10 who would have to leave the child without adequate supervision. The amended version adds an exemption for "a full-time college student as determined by the respective college or university."` (70 § 14-140)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/06/96
JUDICIARY
HOUSE COMMITTEE - DO PASS 02/07/96
AMENDMENT ADOPTED - HOUSE 02/14/96
BILL PASSED - HOUSE 02/14/96
(93 AYE / 5 NAY / 0 ABSENT / 3 EXCUSED / 0 NOT VOTING)
SENATE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/15/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO SENATE COMMITTEE 02/19/96
JUDICIARY
* HB 2286 (Bastin) - TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER. Authorizes the Board of Vocational and Technical Education, subject to the availability of funds and in conjunction with the Department of Commerce, to develop a Computer Assisted Technology Transfer (CATT) Program; requires the emphasis of the program to be to assist in the development of unique public/private manufacturing partnerships, to build an electronic network for the exchange of information and manufacturing technologies between the public and private sectors and to offer training and education. (70 § 14-140)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/06/96
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
* HB 2302 (Leist) - MATERNITY BENEFITS. Requires individual and group health insurance policies, HMOs, and pre-paid health plans that provide coverage on an expense-incurred basis, and individual and group service or indemnity-type contracts issued by a nonprofit corporation which provide maternity benefits to provide coverage for a minimum of 48 hours of inpatient care following a vaginal delivery and a minimum of 96 hours of inpatient care following a cesarean section for a mother and the newborn child; authorizes the method to elect to be discharged earlier without coverage being affected; provides an exception for policies or contracts that provide coverage for post-delivery care in the home; provides requirements for post-delivery home care. (36 § 6060.1) (See SB 684, HBs 2330, 2348, 2655)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/06/96
PUBLIC HEALTH
* HB 2309 (Deutschendorf) - TEMPORARY TEACHERS. Authorizes a school district to employ a teacher or allow a teacher under contract to teach a grade level or curricular area in which the teacher is not licensed on a temporary basis to accommodate increases or decreases in student population; limits such placement to one semester; allows teacher assistants to monitor interactive video instructional programs or classes taught through distance learning technology; requires the State Board of Education to establish personnel requirements for interactive video programs or classes taught through distance learning technology which allow non-certified persons or teacher assistants to monitor certain distance learning classrooms. The committee substitute adds language relating to employment of substitute teachers. (70 § 6-108)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/06/96
EDUCATION
HOUSE COMMITTEE - COM SUB DO PASS 02/20/96
* HB 2316 (Hager) - AREA VO-TECH DISTRICTS. Requires the board of education of an area vocational-technical school district, within 30 days after an election to make or change the amount of a levy for such district, to notify the county clerk of each county in which the district is located of the results of the election, the amount of the levy, if approved, and the local school districts in the county which will be affected by the levy. (70 § 14-108)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/06/96
EDUCATION
* HB 2326 (Pettigrew) - RETIREMENT. Accelerates increases in employer contribution rates for OTRS. (70 § 17-108.1)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/06/96
APPROPRIATIONS & BUDGET
* HB 2330 (Betty Boyd) - MATERNITY BENEFITS. Requires HMOs and pre-paid health plan agreements or contracts and individual and group health insurance policies that provide coverage on an expense incurred basis, and individual and group service or indemnity-type contracts issued by a nonprofit corporation which provide maternity benefits to provide coverage for a minimum of 48 hour of inpatient care following a vaginal delivery and a minimum of 96 hours of inpatient care following a cesarean section for a mother and the newborn child; authorizes the method to elect to be discharged earlier without coverage being affected; provides an exception for policies or contracts that provide coverage for post-delivery care in the home; provides requirements for post-delivery home care. (36 § 6060.1) (See SB 684, HBs 2302, 2348, 2655)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/06/96
PUBLIC HEALTH
* HB 2336 (Betty Boyd) - LICENSE PLATES. Modifies the university and college supporter license plates to include private universities and colleges; requires that $20 of the additional $25 fee for each plate designating a particular state university or college be apportioned to the appropriate institution and $20 for each plate designating a private university or college be credited to the State Regents for support of the Regents' scholarship programs. (47 § 1136)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/06/96
PUBLIC SAFETY
HOUSE COMMITTEE - COM SUB DO PASS 02/13/96
* HB 2337 (Gray) - ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES. Requires cabinet secretaries, by Jan. 1, 1997, to review administrative rules, including those that are not part of the Oklahoma Administrative Code, which should be modified or repealed because they are obsolete, unenforceable, unnecessarily burdensome, duplicative or of no administrative benefit, and to report such rules to the Governor, speaker of the House and Senate president pro tempore; requires cabinet secretaries by Jan. 1, 1997, to review statutes to determine if administrative rules should be adopted and to report such statutes to the Governor, House speaker and Senate president pro tempore; requires that, if an emergency rule is superseded by another emergency rule prior to enactment of a permanent rule, the latter emergency rule shall retain the same expiration date as the superseded emergency rule, unless otherwise authorized by the Legislature; requires the Governor, rather than the agency, to provide notification to legislative leaders and The Oklahoma Register of rules approved or disapproved by the Governor; states that the standard of proof required in individual proceedings to be a preponderance of the evidence. (75 § 250.6)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/06/96
ADMINISTRATIVE RULE REVIEW
HOUSE COMMITTEE - DO PASS AS AMENDED 02/22/96
* HB 2348 (Roach/Penny Williams) - MATERNITY BENEFITS. Requires health benefit plan contracts issued, amended, renewed or delivered on or after Jan. 1, 1997, that provide maternity benefits to provide coverage for a minimum of 48 hours of inpatient care following a vaginal delivery, a minimum of 96 hours of inpatient care following a cesarean section for a mother and newborn child and for postpartum home care following a vaginal delivery if childbirth occurs at home; authorizes a plan to provide coverage for a shorter length of hospital inpatient stay for services related to maternity and newborn care under certain conditions; provides that, if coverage would be provided under a contract subject to a capitated or per-discharge rate, the plan must provide supplementary reimbursement to providers for the additional services required by that coverage. The committee substitute requires that coverage for postpartum home care following a vaginal delivery when childbirth occurs at home provide for one home visit per day within 48 hours of childbirth by a licensed health care provider whose scope of practice includes providing such care. Home visits and inpatient care would be required to include parent education, assistance and training in feeding and the performance of any necessary maternal and neonatal physical assessments. Inpatient care also would be required to include necessary and appropriate clinical tests on the infant. (36 § 6060.1) (See SB 684, HBs 2302, 2330, 2655)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/06/96
PUBLIC HEALTH
HOUSE COMMITTEE - COM SUB DO PASS 02/20/96
* HB 2355 (Weaver) - HEALTH INSURANCE. Provides that a retired OTRS member who qualifies to continue participation in a state insurance plan may continue participation even if the education employer from which the person retired or terminated service with a vested benefit subsequently obtains health and dental insurance coverage from another carrier. (74 § 1316.3)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/06/96
RULES
* HB 2366 (Staggs) - ASSAULT ON PUBLIC EMPLOYEE. Makes it a felony to knowingly commit an assault, battery, or assault and battery, without justifiable or excusable cause, upon a public employee who is in the performance of any duties as a public employee; defines "public employee" as any elected or appointed officer or any employee of the state, a county, or a city. (21 § 650.9)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/06/96
CRIMINAL JUSTICE
* HB 2367 (Staggs) - SECTION THIRTEEN LANDS. This is a shell bill relating to the Section Thirteen Fund State Educational Institutions. (70 § 619) (See HB 2368)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/06/96
APPROPRIATIONS & BUDGET
* HB 2368 (Staggs) - SECTION THIRTEEN LANDS. This is a shell bill relating to the Section Thirteen lands. (70 § 3904) (See HB 2367)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/06/96
APPROPRIATIONS & BUDGET
* HB 2370 (Staggs) - DRUG/ALCOHOL TESTING. This is a shell bill relating to the Standards for Workplace Drug and Alcohol Testing Act. (40 § 557) (See HB 2211)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/06/96
COMMERCE, INDUSTRY & LABOR
* HB 2373 (Askins) - AGENCY CLEARING ACCOUNTS. Authorizes the use of certain agency special accounts as clearing accounts; authorizes the treasurer to accept checks deposited directly into State Treasury funds if the depositing state agency maintains sufficient balances in its agency clearing account to cover return items; authorizes agencies to maintain sufficient balances in agency clearing accounts to cover returned checks, credit card adjustments, credit card returns and other debit items; makes such balances subject to approval by the treasurer; eliminates fees charged by the treasurer for issuing copies of warrants, court-ordered account maintenance and administration of credit card programs. (62 § 89.6)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/06/96
APPROPRIATIONS & BUDGET
02/21/96: DO PASS (UNOFFICIAL)
* HB 2377 (Thornbrugh) - EMPLOYMENT SECURITY. This is a shell bill relating to contributions under the Employment Security Act. (40 § 3-102)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/06/96
COMMERCE, INDUSTRY & LABOR
* HB 2384 (Seikel) - TRAVEL REIMBURSEMENT. Authorizes reimbursement to state officers and employees for local transportation costs incurred traveling between optional lodging and a designated hotel, motel or other public lodging if the combined total costs for the optional lodging and transportation is equal to or less than the rate charged by the designated lodging place. (74 § 500.9)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/06/96
APPROPRIATIONS & BUDGET
* HB 2394 (Seikel) - PURCHASING. Requires agencies subject to the Central Purchasing Act to acquire all supplies, material, and equipment from statewide contracts; exempts individual offices, divisions or entities of the Tourism and Recreation Department and the Department of Human Services, for single purchases of less than $750, if certain conditions are met. (74 § 85.7b)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/06/96
APPROPRIATIONS & BUDGET
* HB 2396 (Seikel) - HEALTH INSURANCE. Provides that a health insurance plan, policy or HMO shall not prohibit or limit in this state any person who is a participant or beneficiary of the policy or plan from selecting a pharmacy or pharmacist of his choice who has agreed to participate in the plan according to the terms offered by the insurer, or deny a pharmacy or pharmacist the right to participate as a contract provider under the policy or plan if the pharmacy or pharmacist agrees to provide pharmacy services that meet the terms and requirements set forth by the insurer under the policy or plan and agrees to the terms of reimbursement set forth by the insurer; provides that it constitutes unprofessional conduct for a pharmacy or pharmacist to waive, discount, rebate or in any way distort the designated copayment of any insurer plan or patient's co-insurance portion of a prescription medication coverage plan; prohibits insurers from imposing upon a beneficiary any copayment, fee or condition that is not equally imposed upon all beneficiaries in the plan. (36 § 3634.3)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/06/96
PUBLIC HEALTH
* HB 2400 (Clay Pope) - EQUINE ACTIVITIES. Creates the Oklahoma Equine Activities Liability Limitation Act; defines terms; provides equine activity sponsors and professionals with immunity from liability for injuries suffered by participants in equine activities resulting from inherent risks, with certain exceptions; requires posting of notice regarding law. (76 § 50.1) (See SB 784, SB 1046)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/06/96
JUDICIARY
* HB 2404 (Hutchison/Weedn) - WILDLIFE. Prohibits certain persons from possessing any bear or cat that will grow to reach the weight of 50 lbs. or more; prohibits the sale, purchase, barter, trade, ownership or possession of any wildlife deemed potentially dangerous to humans, except as otherwise provided by law; provides an exception for State System institutions and medical research facilities. (29 § 5-414)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/06/96
WILDLIFE
* HB 2409 (Adkins) - INCOME TAX CREDIT. Provides for a $500 state income tax credit to eligible employers for employing or hiring an Oklahoma resident who has graduated from a four-year public or private Oklahoma college or university within one year prior to employment and has worked at least one full year for the eligible employer. (68 § 2357.25)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/06/96
REVENUE & TAXATION
HOUSE COMMITTEE - DO PASS 02/14/96
* HB 2422 (Roberts/Monson) - RETIREMENT. This is a shell bill relating to calculation of retirement benefits for OTRS. (70 § 17-116.2)
HOUSE INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING 02/05/96
SECOND READING - REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMITTEE 02/06/96
RETIREMENT LAWS
HOUSE COMMITTEE - DO PASS 02/22/96
* HB 2430 (Settle) - WORKERS' COMPENSATION. This is a shell bill relating to workers' compensation equivalent insurance products. The committee substitute requires that at least two judges selected by the presiding judge of the Workers' Compensation Court be situated in Tulsa; modifies the selection of physicians under workplace medical plans; authorizes an employer to secure workers' compensation coverage for employees through a 24-hour coverage insurance product offered under a pilot program and approved by the insurance commissioner; authorizes the Labor Commissioner to waive the civil penalty assessed against an employer for failure to secure workers' compensation, for a first offense, who secures such cove