TULSA – Senate Pro Tem Greg Treat, R-Oklahoma City, today joined Tulsa Mayor G.T. Bynum and other local officials to tour areas that were damaged by recent storms.

OKLAHOMA CITY – Ahead of the one year anniversary of the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade, Sen. Carri Hicks joined dozens of state legislators from around the nation last week to attend the State Legislative Convening on Reproductive Rights at the White House.

Pro Tem Treat signed executive order within the hour of finding out he was acting governor

OKLAHOMA CITY – Senate Pro Tem Greg Treat, R-Oklahoma City, today signed an executive order declaring a state of emergency for eastern Oklahoma after storms ravaged parts of the state over the weekend, leaving some still without power.

The pro tem was notified he was acting governor by the Governor’s Office around 1 p.m. today.

OKLAHOMA CITY – Further major reforms to address illegal marijuana grows and other activities moved through the Senate this week. Senate Bill 475 by Sen.

OKLAHOMA CITY – Three Senate education leaders today called on the University of Oklahoma to reconsider the Regents’ decision to raise tuition on students for the third year in a row.

OKLAHOMA CITY – Sen.

Sen. Julia Kirt released the following statement Wednesday after the Legislative Office of Fiscal Transparency (LOFT) released a report on the Commissioners of the Land Office (CLO), the authority responsible for maintaining lands in trust in order to create revenue that can be used by public schools and higher education.

OKLAHOMA CITY- Sen. Mary Boren, D-Norman, joined more than 130 state legislators from across the county in urging the federal government to put criteria in place that will ensure projects receiving federal hydrogen tax credits are effective in reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

OKLAHOMA CITY – Senate Democratic Leader Kay Floyd expressed her thanks to her principal House authors, fellow members of both chambers and to Gov. Kevin Stitt after two of her measures were signed into law.