Press Releases

Treat: Senate to stop hearing House bills in appropriations until transparency prevails

OKLAHOMA CITY – Senate Pro Tem Greg Treat, R-Oklahoma City, today expressed disappointment that the Oklahoma House of Representatives is unnecessarily stalling budget negotiations. 

OKLAHOMA CITY- House Bill 1795, the Sergeant CJ Nelson Legacy Act, was unanimously approved by the Senate Education Committee Tuesday. Sen. Kristen Thompson, R-Edmond, serves as the Senate author of the legislation that covers certain higher education expenses for children of fallen first responders.

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OKLAHOMA CITY – Sen. Kevin Matthews, D-Tulsa, and Sen. John Haste, R-Broken Arrow, helped pay tribute to the Tulsa Area United Way’s 100^th Anniversary, honoring the organization during a presentation in the Oklahoma Senate Chamber on Tuesday.

OKLAHOMA CITY- Sen. Paul Rosino, R-Oklahoma City, encourages Oklahomans to join him in recognizing World Autism Day, a global initiative to raise awareness for individuals with autism. Rosino has been a continuous advocate for autism awareness, a cause very near to his heart.

Supreme Court: The concurrent special session was constitutional

OKLAHOMA CITY – Senate Pro Tem Greg Treat, R-Oklahoma City, today commented on the unanimous, 9-to-0, ruling by the Oklahoma Supreme Court in favor of the legislature’s authority to override vetoes of tribal compacting bills related to car tags and tobacco that remit millions of dollars to the state each year.

The state receives around $58 million per year from tribal motor vehicle and tobacco compacts.

Supreme Court: The concurrent special session was constitutional

OKLAHOMA CITY – Senate Pro Tem Greg Treat, R-Oklahoma City, today commented on the unanimous, 9-to-0, ruling by the Oklahoma Supreme Court in favor of the legislature’s authority to override vetoes of tribal compacting bills related to car tags and tobacco that remit millions of dollars to the state each year.

The state receives around $58 million per year from tribal motor vehicle and tobacco compacts.

OKLAHOMA CITY – Sen. Grant Green, R-Wellston, recognized on Tuesday, March 26 several local students who received awards for their outstanding academic accomplishments.

Green and Rep. Danny Williams, R-Seminole, presented five high-achieving students with legislative citations recognizing their hard work to qualify for the All-Oklahoma Academic Team or the Oklahoma Association of Community Colleges’ Presidents Tuition Waiver Award.

OKLAHOMA CITY- Senate Majority Floor Leader Greg McCortney was presented with the esteemed ORA Legislator of the Year award. The Ada Republican was selected as the 2024 honoree by the Oklahoma Rifle Association and was recognized for his continual efforts to uphold Oklahomans’ Second Amendment rights.

OKLAHOMA CITY – In February of 2015 in Tulsa, an unarmed young Black man, Monroe “Trey” Bird III, was shot in a car in his apartment’s parking lot and left paralyzed by a security guard who reportedly was in possession of marijuana and had other medication in his system at the time. Bird, 21, died a few months later.

Senate Pro Tem Greg Treat held a press conference on Thursday, March 28 at 1:15 p.m.

OKLAHOMA CITY – Sen. Jo Anna Dossett, D-Tulsa, has been honored by the Oklahoma Rifle Association (ORA). Dossett was presented with the association’s 2024 ORA Legislator of the Year award. Throughout the 2023 interim and during the 2024 session, Dossett has been working on legislation to incentivize greater use of gun safety devices.

OKLAHOMA CITY – The Senate Judiciary Committee has given unanimous approval to a measure clarifying Oklahoma statutes on voting rights for citizens convicted of a felony who’ve received a commutation or pardon. Sen. George Young, D-Oklahoma City, is the Senate principal author of House Bill 1629, and Rep.

OKLAHOMA CITY- Recently, Sen. Micheal Bergstrom, R-Adair, attended a presentation ceremony to celebrate the grant awarded to the city of Ketchum for the Oklahoma Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust (TSET) Healthy Incentive grant.

OKLAHOMA CITY – Sen. Bill Coleman, R-Ponca City, released the following statement on Monday after the passing of his friend and mentor, Marlin “Ike” Glass Jr. A member of the Oklahoma Hall of Fame, Glass, of Newkirk, was a veteran and savvy businessman who served 18 years on the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education after being appointed to his first term in 1997. 

OKLAHOMA CITY – Sen. Nathan Dahm, R-Broken Arrow, on Thursday released the following statement in response to Senate Pro Tem Greg Treat’s continued name-calling and contention that Dahm’s legislation is “crazy.”

Senate Pro Tem Greg Treat held a press conference on Tuesday, March 19 at 11:00 a.m.

OKLAHOMA CITY – Senate Pro Tem Greg Treat, R-Oklahoma City and Senate Appropriations Chairman, Senator Roger Thompson, R-Okemah, today released the following statements after the Senate budget re

OKLAHOMA CITY – Members of the Oklahoma Women’s Legislative Caucus are helping bring attention to Women’s History Month, observed each March, celebrating the outstanding contributions women have made throughout the nation’s history.