RIED 2023
BILLS FOR SCORING CONSIDERATION
Bill # Bill Authors RIED Position (Pro-Growth, Anti- Growth, Monitor)
Description
HB 1030 Rep. J. West, Sen. Howard Anti-Growth Creates the Oklahoma Computer Data Privacy Act.
HB 1130 Rep. Fetgatter, Sen. R. Thompson Pro-Growth
HB 1362 Rep. Fetgatter, Sen. Hall Pro-Growth
HB 1375 Rep. Boatman, Sen. Rader Pro-Growth
HB 1590 Rep. Grego, Sen. Murdock Anti-Growth
HB 1633 Rep. Staires, Sen. Bergstrom Anti-Growth
Removes the requirement of a broadband incentive award formula for a sales tax exemption on broadband equipment to be utilized.
Increases the funding for the Filmed in Oklahoma incentive program.
Switches the apportionment formula for corporate income from a treble factor formula to a single sales formula and repeals the throwback rule.
Increases the monthly 911 telephone fee by 50 cents, making the fee $1.25 for all services with the ability to call 911 beginning Nov. 1, 23 for use in the Next Generation 911 technology upgrade.
Disallows businesses to prohibit the use of cash payment as a form of payment.
HB 1645 Rep. Maynard, Sen. Howard Pro-Growth Eliminates the throwback rule.
HB 1955 Rep. McCall, Rep. O'Donnell Anti-Growth Eliminates the state sales tax on groceries.
HB 2191 Rep. K. West, Sen. Gollihare Anti-Growth
Prohibits private property from being taken or damaged by a condemning authority unless the taking or damage is necessary for a public use and with just compensation and states public purpose or public benefit of economic development, including an increase in tax base, tax revenues, employment, or general economic health, does not constitute a public use. The bill directs the court to strictly construe eminent domain statues in favor of property owners and against condemning authority.
HB 2218 Rep. K. West, Sen. Bergstrom Anti-Growth
HB 2285 Rep. Lepak, Sen. Rader Pro-Growth
HB 2316 Rep. Hilbert, Sen. Paxton Pro-Growth
Prohibits state agencies from contracting with businesses that discriminates against firearm manufactures, ammunition manufactures or firearm trade associations, with certain exemptions.
Modifies income tax rates and prescribing method for computations. The bill establishes a reduction of individual income tax rates. The bill modifies standard deduction amounts.
Exempts occasional sales from taxes. It defines occasional sale as one or two sales of taxable items at
HB 2451 Rep. Schreiber, Sen. Montgomery Pro-Growth
retail during a 12-month period by a person who does not habitually engage in the business of selling taxable items, the sale of the entire operating assets of a business and certain transfer of property.
Creates a tax credit for employers for assistance provided by an employer to an employee for the employee's direct expenses of childcare, for operating a childcare facility primarily used by dependents of the employees, for construction or rehabilitation of a structure to provide childcare services, and for acquiring or constructing of a childcare facility to provide childcare services. The bill creates a $500 tax credit for a qualified childcare worker.
HB 2452 Rep. Schreiber, Sen. Garvin Pro-Growth
Prohibits local governing authorities from promulgating local regulation that permit or require licensees of family child care homes to exceed or limit the capacity provided by the license granted to the licensee by the Department of Human Services.
HB 2459 Rep. Hill, Sen. Hall Pro-Growth
Modifies the Oklahoma Film Industry Incentive to include student wages in the expenditure or production costs, defines production assistant, increases qualified expenditures to 5% from 3% for projects were 25% of the project are on location in the state, mandates the Oklahoma logo be on the credits for at least 2 seconds.
HB 2547
Rep. O’Donnell, Rep. McBride, Sen. Woods
Anti-Growth
Requires all shares held directly or indirectly by or on behalf of a governmental entity and/or the participants and their beneficiaries be voted solely in the pecuniary interest of plan participants and their beneficiaries. It prohibits a governmental entity from relying on any voting decision guidance from certain companies listed as restricted financial institutions and companies. It prohibits, unless no economically practicable alternative is available, a governmental entity from granting proxy voting authority to any person who is not a part of the governmental entity, unless that person has a practice of, and in writing commits to, following guidelines that match the governmental entity's obligation to act solely upon pecuniary factors. It prohibits, unless no economically practicable alternative is available, public retirement system assets from being entrusted to a fiduciary, unless that fiduciary has a practice of, and in writing commits to, follow guidelines, when engaging with portfolio companies and voting shares or proxies, that match the governmental entity's obligation to act solely upon pecuniary factors. It prohibits unless no economically practicable alternative is available, an investment manager, fiduciary or governmental entity from adopting a practice of following the recommendations of a proxy adviser or other service provider, unless such adviser or service provider has a practice of, and in writing commits to, follow proxy voting guidelines
that match the governmental entity's obligation to act solely upon pecuniary factors. It requires all proxy votes be tabulated and reported annually to the State Treasurer. It establishes requirements for the report.
Creates the Oklahoma Critical Industries Scholarship Program, a four-year pilot program to encourage high school graduates to pursue degree-seeking or certificate-seeking post-secondary education training in industries which are critical to the economic growth of the state. It requires the program to be administered by the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education, which will establish. the scholarship amounts and student eligibility for the program may vary by individual higher education institution or technology center school. It establishes minimum eligibility requirements for students. It requires the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education to identify eligible critical industry programs offered by state public higher education institutions and state public technology center schools in coordination with the State Board of Career and Technology Education and requires they include computer science, engineering, and cybersecurity programs. It requires the program to match state funds up to $15.0 million on a pro rata basis with funds from state public higher education institutions, state public technology center schools, and private funding sources to provide scholarships for eligible students. It requires state matching funds be capped for each higher education institution and technology center school. It permits the chancellor to make reductions in the payments made to participants if sufficient funds are not available to award scholarships to eligible participants during any fiscal year. It permits the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education to set aside funds for the full commitment made to a participating student at the time a scholarship is awarded on behalf of the Oklahoma Critical Industries Scholarship Program. It permits the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education to utilize Oklahoma Critical Industries Scholarship Program designated funds for administration of the program.
Prohibits any person, property owner, tenant, employer, or business entity from establishing or enforcing any policy or rule that prohibits any person or employee, except a convicted felon, from transporting, carrying, or storing firearms or ammunition in a locked motor vehicle on any property set aside for any motor vehicle person, property owner, tenant, employer, or business entity or a motor vehicle owned, leased, or rented by the person or employee to conduct business for the business entity. It changes the name of the section of statute entitled "Business Owner's Rights" to
HB 2555
Rep. McBride, Rep. Baker, Sen. R. Thompson
Pro-Growth
HB 2644 Rep. Steagall, Rep. Hardin, Sen. Alvord Anti-Growth
"Private Property Owner's Rights." It permits an individual to bring a civil action to enforce the bill's provisions. It requires the court award actual damages, enjoin further violations, and award court costs and attorney fees to the prevailing plaintiff if a plaintiff prevails in a civil action against a person, property owner, tenant, employer, liquor store, place of worship or business, for a policy or rule that violates the bill's provisions. It exempts claims pursuant to the Administrative Workers' Compensation Act. It permits any employee, using his or her own private motor vehicle or a motor vehicle that is personally rented or leased by the employee, to transport a firearm or other legal weapon in the motor vehicle while conducting business for the business entity and will not be prohibited from transporting such firearm or weapon by any policy or rule of the business entity. The bill defines the term "motor vehicle."
HB 2695 Rep. Kendrix, Sen. Montgomery Pro-Growth Terminates the franchise tax in tax year 2023.
HB 2777 Rep. McCall, Sen. Treat Anti-Growth
Creates the Oklahoma Public Finance Protection Act. The bill requires a fiduciary to discharge duties with respect to a plan solely in the pecuniary interest of the participants and beneficiaries for the exclusive purpose of providing pecuniary benefits to participants and their beneficiaries and defraying reasonable expenses of administering the plan, with the care, skill, prudence, and diligence under the circumstances then prevailing that a prudent man acting in a like capacity and familiar with such matters would use in the conduct of an enterprise of a like character and with like aims, by diversifying the investments of the plan so as to minimize the risk of large losses, unless under the circumstances it is clearly prudent not to do so and in accordance with the documents and instruments governing the plan insofar as such documents and instruments are consistent with the provisions of this act. The bill requires a fiduciary's evaluation of an investment to take into account only pecuniary factors, not environmental , social, corporate governance, or other similarly oriented considerations are pecuniary factors unless they present economic risks or opportunities that qualified investment professionals would treat as material economic considerations under generally accepted investment theories.
HB 2853 Rep. Wallace, Rep. Montgomery Monitor
Creates the Oklahoma Rebate Pass-Through and PBM Meaningful Transparency Act of 2023. The bill defines applicable terms. The bill establishes requirements for licensing. It requires, beginning on Jan. 1, 2022, and on an annual basis thereafter, a pharmacy benefits manager (PBM) to provide the
HB 2866 Rep. Wallace, Sen. Coleman Pro-Growth
HB 2870 Rep. Wallace Pro-Growth
SB 11 Sen. Rader Pro-Growth
Insurance Department with a report containing the certain information from the prior calendar year as it pertains to pharmacy benefits provided by health insurers to enrollees in the state. It prohibits the PBM and the Department from publishing or otherwise disclosing any information that would reveal the identity of a specific health plan, the price(s) charged for a specific drug or class of drugs, the amount of any rebates provided for a specific drug or class of drugs, the manufacturer, or that would otherwise have the potential to compromise the financial, competitive, or proprietary nature of the information. It requires any such information be protected from disclosure as confidential and proprietary information, is not a public record as defined in the Oklahoma Open Records Act and cannot be disclosed directly or indirectly. It requires a PBM to impose the confidentiality protections on any vendor or downstream third party that performs health care or administrative services on behalf of the PBM and that may receive or have access to rebate information. It prohibits a PBM, or an agent of a PBM from contractually prohibiting or penalizing a pharmacy or pharmacist for certain actions. It requires a PBM, for each contract or other relationship with a health plan, to publish on an easily accessible website the health plan formulary, and timely notification of formulary changes and/or product exclusions. It modifies formulary requirements. It requires an enrollee's defined cost sharing for each prescription drug to be calculated at the point of sale based on a price that is reduced by an amount equal to at least 85 percent of all rebates received, or to be received, in connection with the dispensing or administration of the prescription drug. It establishes penalties for violations.
Permits contracts under the Oklahoma Tourism Development Act to be up to 10 years, rather than requiring that they be 10 years. The bill increases the cap on the Oklahoma Tourism Development Act to $30 million from $15 million.
Creates a grant program for both homebuyers and home builders in rural and urban areas.
Removes the prohibition on a person incarcerated in a state, federal or private correctional facility receiving a state tuition aid grant.
SB 93 Sen. Rader, Rep. Moore Pro-Growth
Requires students complete and submit a Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) in order to graduate from a public high school accredited by the State Board of Education. It provides for certain exemptions. The bill requires the State Department of Education develop and publish materials for students, parents, and legal guardians explaining the requirements to complete the FAFSA, the benefits to
SB 119 Sen. Bergstrom, Rep. Lepak Pro-Growth
SB 317 Sen. Pemberton Monitor
SB 394 Sen. Coleman, Rep. Wallace Pro-Growth
completing the FAFSA, and the opt-out provisions and an opt-out form to be used by school districts, charter schools, and virtual charter schools. It requires the superintendent of each school district to designate a school employee to collect information regarding student compliance with bill's provisions and requires the collection and storage of the information comply with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA). It requires the State Board of Education to promulgate rules that address the method by which a student is to provide proof to a school district, public charter school, or virtual charter school that the student has completed and submitted the FAFSA as required.
Creates the Right-to-Start Act. It creates the Office of Entrepreneurship in the Oklahoma Department of Commerce to oversee programs and policies supporting the growth of entrepreneurship in the state.
Adds reporting requirements pursuant to the promulgation of rules by the Oklahoma Department of Commerce as it relates to the Oklahoma Local Development and Enterprise Zone Incentive Leverage Act.
Modifies the annual limit on the sales tax credit afforded under the Oklahoma Tourism Development Act.
SB 513 Sen. Rosino, Rep. Miller Monitor
Requires any health benefit plan, including the Oklahoma Employees Insurance Plan, that is offered, issued, or renewed in this state on or after the effective date to provide coverage for biomarker testing. It requires an evidence of coverage document provided with a health benefit plan to include biomarker testing for the purpose of diagnosis, treatment, appropriate management, or ongoing monitoring of an insured’s disease or condition to guide treatment decisions when the biomarker test is supported by medical and scientific evidence.
SB 516 Sen. Pugh, Rep. Echols Pro-Growth
Creates the Statewide Charter School Board. It requires the board to have the sole authority to sponsor statewide virtual charter schools in Oklahoma and can sponsor charter schools in Oklahoma. It provides for membership of the nine-voting member board. It requires that, beginning July 1, 2024, statewide virtual charter schools must be sponsored only by the Statewide Charter School Board. It abolishes, effective July 1, 2024, the Statewide Virtual Charter School Board and the Statewide Charter School Board shall succeed to any contractual rights and responsibilities and settlement agreements incurred by the Statewide Virtual Charter School Board in a virtual charter school sponsorship contract executed prior to July 1, 2024. It requires the State
Board of Education to be responsible for accreditation of charter schools and virtual charter schools and ensure compliance with special education laws and federal laws and programs administered by the State Board of Education. It creates the Statewide Charter School Board Revolving Fund.
SB 531
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Creates the Rewarding Student Outcomes Act, to build an outcomes-based career, college, and military readiness incentive program for school districts, charter schools, and virtual charter schools in this state. The bill requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to make an annual report on each district's educationally disadvantaged population. The bill requires public schools to have at least a 1 percent increase in the number of annual graduates in a cohort shown to be college, career or military ready to receive a Rewarding Student Outcomes Act bonus of $1,500 if the annual graduate is educationally disadvantaged and $500 if the graduate is not economically disadvantaged. The bill requires annual reports on the program, with letter scores for each school. The bill requires climate surveys at schools. The bill describes certain credentials and tests that can be used to qualify a student as college, career or military ready.
Removes Oklahoma Tax Commission’s authority to grant an extension without penalty for good cause for 15 days for the filing of the returns as required by the Ad Valorem Tax Code.
Creates the Oklahoma Workforce Transformation Act. It creates the Oklahoma Workforce Commission. It states the purpose of the Commission is to coordinate the development of the workforce needed to grow Oklahoma's economy and Oklahomans' prosperity. It empowers the Commission to the fullest extent permitted by law to coordinate the funding and activities of each element of the state's workforce development programs, systems, and entities, to achieve better alignment, accountability, and results for the state's workforce development efforts, and to act as the principal point of contact regarding workforce development for public officials, businesses, and the public. It provides for commission membership.
Sets requirements for events in smaller communities under the Oklahoma Quality Events Incentive and events for a combination of at least two counties, towns, cities or municipalities.
Creates the Aero Student Pathways for Aerospace Careers and Education under the umbrella of the Oklahoma Aeronautics Commission partnership with primary, secondary, and higher education providers to respond to the workforce needs of the aviation and aerospace industry by promoting and organizing quality curriculum, enhanced classroom instruction,
Sen. Pugh, Rep. Miller Pro-Growth
606 Sen. Rader, Rep. Pfeffier Monitor
Pugh, Rep. Hill Pro-Growth
746 Sen. Coleman, Rep. Hilbert Pro-Growth
930 Sen. Rosino, Rep. Baker Pro-Growth
SB 942 Sen. Haste, Rep. Wallace Pro-Growth
and research-based educational programs, in collaboration with industry. The bill allows OAC to contract with other qualified entities to operate the program, and allows the agencies to receive donations, contractual arrangements, in-kind services, federal or state appropriations, and grants for the program.
Creates the Oklahoma Aircraft Engine Testing Development Grant Program to offer financial assistance by grant to private or public entities for the purpose of augmenting the aircraft engine testing capabilities of this state and developing aircraft engine testing infrastructure, with funding based on merit and the potential of the project to help the industry in the state with a one-time award. The bill sets requirements for entities seeking one-time grant funding. The bill creates the Oklahoma Aircraft Engine Testing Development Grant Program Revolving Fund to fund the program.
SB 1063 Sen. Garvin, Rep. Lawson Pro-Growth
SB 1068 Sen. Howard, Rep. Boles Pro-Growth
SB 1102 Sen. Treat, Rep. McCall Pro-Growth
Provides businesses a tax credit for up to 20 percent of the expenses related to providing childcare for employees to be used within four years.
Includes the manufacturing, compounding, processing or fabrication of materials into articles of tangible personal property according to the special order of a customer by manufacturers in the definition of manufacturing for the purpose of Oklahoma’s tax code.
Creates the Legacy Fund Task Force. The Task Force will consider a Constitutional referendum to create the Oklahoma Legacy Fund, which would be used to reduce the individual income tax to a rate of zero.
2022 RIED Top Scorers
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Congratulations
Jeff Boatman
Justin Humphrey
Mark McBride
John Pfeiffer
Dean Davis
Mark Lepak
Nicole Miller
Logan Phillips
Jon Echols
Ryan Martinez
Mike Osburn
Sean Roberts
Kyle Hilbert
Stan May
Kenton Patzkowsky
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Danny Williams
STATE SENATE Top Scorers for 2022 earned 88 points or more by voting with RIED.
Julie Daniels
Dave Rader
Kim David Brent Howard
94 88 97 88 97
John Michael Montgomery
