Oklahoma State Senate
2008 LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY AND FY 2009 BUDGET REVIEW
June 2008
We are pleased to present the 2008 Legislative Summary and
FY 2009 Budget Review. Included within
this document are summaries of all substantive bills and resolutions enacted in
the 2008 Session and information on appropriation measures and the state budget
adopted by the Legislature for FY 2009.
The summaries contained herein have been prepared by the
following Senate Committee Staff personnel:
·
Lori Block, Staff Attorney, Senate
Appropriations, Education and Health & Human Resources Committees
·
Tom
Clapper, Legislative Analyst, Senate Resolutions
·
Caroline
Dennis, Director of Committee Staff, Senate Rules Committee
·
Matt Duehning, Staff Attorney, Senate General
Government, Public Safety and Homeland Security and Transportation Committees
·
Alicia Emerson, Legislative Analyst, Senate Retirement
& Insurance Committee
·
Scott
Emerson, Attorney, Senate Agriculture & Rural Development and Tourism &
Wildlife Committees
·
Selden Jones, Staff Attorney, Senate Business
& Labor, Retirement & Insurance, and Veterans & Military Affairs
Committees
·
Judy King, Staff Attorney, Senate Energy
& Environment and Finance Committees
·
Tracy
Kersey, Legislative Analyst/Attorney, Senate Judiciary Committee
·
Lewis
LeNaire, Legislative Analyst, Public Safety & Homeland Security Committee
·
Mary Jo Mitts, Legislative Analyst, Senate Energy
& Environment and Transportation Committees
·
Kim
Montgomery, Legislative Analyst, Senate Education Committee
·
Jennifer
Mullens, Legislative Analyst, Senate Health & Human Resources Committee
·
Nancy Pellow, Legislative Analyst, Senate Criminal
Jurisprudence Committee
·
Cheryl
Purvis, Staff Attorney, Senate Criminal Jurisprudence, Judiciary and Rules
Committees
·
Joanie
Raff, Legislative Analyst, Senate Finance Committee
·
Lexa Shafer, Legislative Analyst, Senate Business
& Labor Committee
·
Jeri
Trope, Legislative Analyst, Senate Agriculture & Rural Development, General
Government, Tourism & Wildlife and Veterans & Military Affairs
Committees
Information on appropriation measures and the state budget
has been prepared by the following Senate Fiscal Staff personnel:
·
Jason
Deal, Fiscal Analyst, Subcommittee on General Government and Transportation
·
Randy
Dowell, Director of Fiscal Staff, Appropriations Committee
·
Amy
Dunaway, Fiscal Analyst, Subcommittee on Natural Resources and Regulatory
Services
·
Amanda
Ewing, Fiscal Analyst, Subcommittee on Human Services
·
Anthony
Sammons, Fiscal Analyst, Subcommittee on Health and Social Services
·
Sean Wallace, Subcommittee on Public Safety and
Judiciary
We also appreciate the assistance of Liz Park-Capron and Laurie Houser, Administrative Assistants, and Malia Bennett, Director of Communications in
preparing this document.
Caroline Dennis Randy Dowell
Director of Senate Committee Staff Director
of Senate Fiscal Staff
Table of Contents
Session Overview
Appropriation Overview
FY’08 Supplemental
Appropriations
Agriculture
& Rural Development Measures
Banking,
Finance & Securities Measures
Business
& Labor Measures
Criminal
Law & Procedures Measures
Corrections
Funding
Office
of Juvenile Affairs Funding
Law
Enforcement Funding
Economic
Development & Commerce Measures
Commerce
Funding
Historical
Society Funding
Career
& Technology Education Funding
Common
Education Measures
Common
Education (K-12) Funding
Higher
Education Measures
Higher
Education Funding
Educational
Television Authority Funding
School
of Science & Mathematics Funding
Energy,
Environment & Utilities Measures
Conservation
Commission Funding
Corporation
Commission Funding
Gaming,
Sports & Amusements Measures
Government
Measures (County, Municipal & Local)
Government
Measures (State)
Central
Services Funding
Emergency
Management Funding
Ethics
Commission Funding
Health
Measures
Health
Care Authority Funding
Public
Health Funding
Mental
Health & Substance Abuse Funding
Human
Services Measures
Human
Services Funding
Rehabilitation
Services Funding
Commission
on Children & Youth Funding
Insurance
Measures
Intoxicating
Liquor, Smoking & Tobacco Laws Measures
Judiciary/Courts
Measures
Motor
Vehicles, Water Vessels & Licensing Measures
Professions
& Occupations Measures
Public
Finance Measures
Public
Safety & Homeland Security Measures
Public
Employees-Retirement/Insurance/Pay/Benefits Measures
Revenue & Taxation
Measures
Tax Commission Funding
Telecommunications
& Technology Measures
Tourism
& Wildlife Measures
Tourism
Funding
J. M.
Davis Commission Funding
Will
Rogers
Commission Funding
Transportation
Measures
Transportation
Funding
Veterans
& Military Affairs Measures
Senate
and House Concurrent Resolutions
Senate
and House Resolutions
Vetoed
Bills
Appropriations
Comparison
In the second session of the 51st
Legislature, the Oklahoma State
Senate considered 1,069 new Senate Bills and 769 carryover Senate Bills, 472
House bills, 31 Senate Joint Resolutions, 31 carryover Senate Joint
Resolutions, 18 House Joint Resolutions, 61 Senate Concurrent Resolutions, 34
House Concurrent Resolutions and 54 Simple Resolutions. Of those measures, 248 Senate Bills and 191
House Bills were signed into law; while eight Senate Bills and four House Bills
were vetoed (the veto of SB 1878 was overridden). Three constitutional amendments (HB 3354 and
SJRs 29 and 38) and 91 Senate Concurrent or Simple Resolutions were filed with
the Secretary of State.
The first piece of legislation considered
during the 2008 session was Senate Concurrent Resolution 49. The resolution denounced Oklahoma’s Jim Crow laws which began with
the passage of Senate Bill 1 in 1908, the first measure passed after statehood. The law required separate facilities for
blacks in public transportation, education and other public facilities. SJR 49 denounced the state’s racial segregationist
past and called for the Senate to begin the Oklahoma’s second century free from all
racial bias or prejudice.
The 2008 session was the last for five members
of the State Senate due to term limits, including Senate President Pro Tempore Mike Morgan, Senate Republican Leader Emeritus James
A. Williamson, Senate Republican Floor Leader Owen
Laughlin, Senator Jeff Rabon,
and Senator Kathleen Wilcoxson.
The following overview details the legislation
approved during the 2008 legislative session.
The General Appropriation (GA) Bill for the
2008 legislative session was HB 2276.
That bill, in conjunction with several single agency appropriation bills
passed in the final week of the session, appropriated a total amount of
$7,089,139,923. There are several ways
to calculate the difference in this appropriation from the amount appropriated
for FY’08. For the purposes of this
document, the FY’08 figure used will be $6,949,972,276. This is the amount appropriated in FY’08
including $30.6 million in supplemental appropriations. Another $73 million in supplemental appropriations
were provided to Common Education. Those
funds are not included in this total because they did not increase the total
budget of the agency. They simply made
up for revenue failures in the 1017 Fund.
Approximately $152.5 million of items considered to be “one-times” have
also been removed from this FY’08 total.
The resulting comparison reflects the actual differences in the
operating budgets of the agencies for FY’08 versus FY’09. As the chart below indicates, agencies will
have $139,167,647 more state dollars to spend for general operations in FY’09
than in FY’08. This is a 2.0 percent
increase.
Comparison of Funding, FY’08-FY’09
(in millions)
FY'08 FY'09 Change
Approp. Approp. $ %
Education 3,756.0 3,793.6 37.6 1.0
Gen. Gov/Trans. 377.4 396.9 19.5 4.8
Health/Soc. Serv. 1,139.5 1,214.7 75.2 6.6
Human Services 702.4 705.4 3.0 0.4
Natural Res. 157.0 160.0 3.0 1.6
Public Safety 802.1 803.0 0.9 0.1
REAP 15.5 15.5 0.0 0.0
Gov. Emergency 10.0 15.0 5.0 50.0
Total 6,950.0 7,089.1 139.1 2.0
To arrive at the appropriated levels, one-time
expenditures were removed from agency allocations and the following revenues
were applied:
·
revenue
growth from certified funds, including an increase to General Revenue from a
voluntary compliance tax initiative;
·
cash-flow
reserve from revenue collections in the current fiscal year; and
·
carryover
at the Health Care Authority, Department of Health, Department of Mental Health
and Substance Abuse Services, and other state agencies.
FY’08
Supplemental Appropriations
Corporation Commission
·
$3,100,000
was provided to help offset a delay in the collection of fees imposed by the
Federal Government.
Department of Corrections
·
$24,000,000
was provided to the agency to cover increases in operating costs, employee
benefits, offender growth and other cost increases.
Department of Education
·
$16,100,000
was provided for the Ad Valorem Reimbursement Fund shortfall.
·
$56,923,566
was provided to the agency to make up for a shortfall in the 1017 Fund. This shortfall was primarily driven by a decrease
in corporate income tax collections.