OKLAHOMA CITY — Sen. Jonathan Wingard, R-Ada, will serve on several of the Oklahoma Senate’s most high-profile committees.

Senate Pro Tem-Elect Lonnie Paxton recently appointed Wingard to the Senate Veterans and Military Affairs Committee, Public Safety Committee and the Agriculture and Wildlife Committee. He will also be one of six senators on the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Education, which oversees funding for common education and public colleges and universities.

OKLAHOMA CITY – Sen. Ally Seifried, R-Claremore, has filed legislation instructing all public school districts to adopt policies preventing student cell phone use from “bell to bell.”

OKLAHOMA CITY – Sen.

OKLAHOMA CITY – Sen. Brian Guthrie, R-Bixby, has been appointed to serve on four Senate Committees for the upcoming legislative session. Guthrie will serve on the Aerospace and Transportation; Economic Development, Workforce and Tourism; and Business and Insurance Committees.

OKLAHOMA CITY – Senate Pro Tem-Elect Lonnie Paxton, R-Tuttle, today announced the full list of committee assignments for the Oklahoma Senate for the upcoming 60^th Legislature that begins in February.

Agriculture and Wildlife 

Senator Casey Murdock, R-Felt, Chair

Senator Roland Pederson, R-Burlington, Vice Chair

OKLAHOMA CITY – Senate Democratic Leader Julia Kirt has filed a pair of bills for the 2025 legislative session providing meaningful tax relief to working Oklahomans struggling with rising costs and stagnant wages. Senate Bill 72 would modernize the state’s sales tax relief credit.

OKLAHOMA CITY – Pro Tem-Elect Lonnie Paxton, R-Tuttle and Senator Kristen Thompson, R-Edmond, today announced their plans to refile legislation to reduce the use of virtual school days in public education.

OKLAHOMA CITY – Sen. Carri Hicks and Sen. Mark Mann issued the following statement Wednesday after the Department of Education (SDE) caused unnecessary confusion for school districts regarding funding for teacher benefits.

OKLAHOMA CITY – Sen. Carri Hicks has filed legislation to expand educational opportunities for members of the Oklahoma National Guard.

OKLAHOMA CITY – Senate Appropriations Chairman Chuck Hall, R-Perry, today released the following statement after the federal government canceled plans for a 645-mile federal transmission corridor that would have run through northern Oklahoma.

Plans for the corridor that would have crossed from Oklahoma’s Panhandle to the state’s border with Arkansas showed the transmission project could go through Kingfisher, Logan and Payne counties, which make up part of Hall’s Senate district.