Oklahoma Policy Review 2017 • Volume 2 Sponsored by: Education 4 Agriculture 28 Oklahoma’s ESSA Compliance Faces Opposition ���������������������������������������������������5 Impacts of the 2018 Farm Bill On Oklahoma ���������������������������������������������������29 Energy 7 Infrastructure 31 Eliminating Credits and Expanding Access: Paving with a Plan ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������32 Oklahoma’s Equal Opportunity Approach to Energy ���������������������������������������������8 Elections 34 Judiciary 10 Taxation without Representation: Special Elections and Empty Seats �����������35 The Political and Financial Cost of Criminal Justice Reform ������������������������������ 11 Health Care 37 Tribal Affairs 13 Oklahoma’s Vaccine Policy: Why Oklahomans May Be at Risk �������������������������38 Anti-Protest Legislation: The Conflict Between Energy, Environment and Cultural Interests �������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 14 Human Services 40 The Effects of Preemptive Measures in The Oklahoma Children’s Code �����������41 Regulatory Affairs 17 The Benefits and Criticisms of Family Leave Mandates ������������������������������������� 18 Budget & Finance 43 The Budget Cycle Continues ������������������������������������������������������������������������������44 Public Safety 20 A Vote on the Emergency: The Dangers and Short Term Solutions Regarding Public Safety Funding ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 21 OPNION 43 The Role of Citizen Potawatomi Nation in Oklahoma at a Glance �������������������48 Veterans and Kill Joy����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������48 Military Affairs 23 End of Session Commentary �����������������������������������������������������������������������������50 Navigating the Home Front ������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 24 ACLU of Oklahoma Response to Oklahoma House’s Shameful Scuttling of Criminal Justice Reform Measures ��������������������������������������������������������������������48 Governor Mary Fallin Signs Budget Bill, Highlights Successes in 2017 Legislative Session� ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������48 Ted Streuli Corey Perry Phone: (405) 278-2848 To order additional copies, Associate Publisher Legislative Report Administrator FAX: (405) 278-2877 please call: JRLR.net (405) 278-2877 Brett Sebastian Tabitha Wilson Legislativereport.com or email: JRLRSales@journalrecord. 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Oklahoma Policy Review 56th Oklahoma Legislature 2017 Session BILLS FILED THIS SESSION EXPERIENCE BILLS PASSED BY SUBJECT 2462 TOTAL # of Freshmen legislators: Education Bills: 53 48 Energy Bills: 7 # of 2nd term legislators: 27 Judicial Bills: 32 921 1541 Senate House # of 3rd term legislators: 16 Tribal Affairs Bills: 2 # of 4th term legislators: 21 Regulatory Bills: 119 # of 5th term legislators: 14 Public Safety Bills: 30 # of 6th term legislators: 18 Veterans & Military Affairs Bills: 19 930 Agriculture Bills: 20 2017 ATTRITION 607 Infrastructure Bills: 19 DECEMBER – REP� TOM NEWELL: RESIGNED FOR PRI- VATE SECTOR JOB Elections Bills: 7 197 FEBRUARY – REP� DAN KIRBY: RESIGNED FACING Health Care Bills: 38 EXPULSION Human Services Bills: 25 17 FEBRUARY – SEN� RALPH SHORTEY: RESIGNED FACING EXPULSION Bills passed out of Signed by the Budget & Finance Bills: 45 committee Governor MARCH – REP� DAVID BRUMBAUGH: PASSED Bills passed to Bills vetoed opposite chamber APRIL – SEN� KYLE LOVELESS: RESIGNED LEADERSHIP MAY – REP� SCOTT MARTIN: RESIGNED FOR PRIVATE SECTOR JOB HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES SENATE: Speaker of the House: Charles McCall President Pro Tempore: Mike Schulz JANUARY 2018 – SEN� DAN NEWBERRY: ANNOUNCED Speaker Pro Tempore: Harold Wright Majority Floor Leader: Greg Treat DECEMBER RESIGNATION TO TAKE PRIVATE SECTOR JOB Majority Floor Leader: Jon Echols Majority Party Chair: Gary Stanislawski Majority Leader: Mike Sanders Majority Whip: Mark Allen Majority Whip: Terry O’Donnell Majority Whip: Nathan Dahm FEBRUARY 2018 – SEN� JOE NEWHOUSE: WILL MISS Minority Leader: Scott Inman Majority Whip: Frank Simpson 2018 SESSION DUE TO BEING CALLED TO ACTIVE MILI- Minority Floor Leader: David Perryman Majority Whip: Rob Standridge TARY DUTY� Minority Whip: Chuck Hoskin Minority Leader: John Sparks Minority Leader Emeritus: Randy Bass Minority Party Chair: Kay Floyd Minority Whip: J.J. 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Oklahoma Policy Review • Volume 2 56th Oklahoma Legislature • 3 Oklahoma Policy Review Education Total Bills: 53 Signed: 51 Vetoed: 2 Resolutions: HJR1028 ENROLLMENT ADAIR MAYES ATOKA MCCURTAIN districtsschool week Counties with FY9-10: 654,542 FY10-11: 659,615 CADDO MCINTOSHI FY11-12: 665,841 CARTER OKMULGEE FY12-13: 673,190 FY13-14: 681,578 CHOCTAW OSAGE FY14-15: 688,300 COAL PITTSBURG FY15-16: 692,670 FY16-17: 693,710 COMANCHE PONTOTOC GRADY POTTAWATOMIE 4 EDUCATION APPROPRIATIONS SUMMARY JOHNSTON PUSHMATAHA day (according to House fiscal documents) KIOWA ROGER MILLS FY10: $3,622,792,171 LATIMER TEXAS FY11: $3,575,365,959 FY12: $3,408,217,675 LEFLORE WASHINGTON FY13: $3,483,954,375 FY14: $3,459,728,733 LOGAN WOODWARD FY15: $3,631,122,391 FY16: $3,631,122,391 FY17: $3,399,643,387 $ PRIVATE SCHOOLS CHARTER SCHOOLS Average private school tuition is $4,689 for elementary schools and 32 ACTIVE CHARTERS $5,959 for high schools 2010-0 More opened each year 2012-2 35,886 students. 2013-2 2011-6 219 private schools 2014-6 2015-11 77% of schools are TOTAL ENROLLMENT 15/16=19,893 religiously affiliated 4 • Education 2017 Oklahoma’s ESSA compliance faces opposition By: Madeline Hecker & Joel Dean The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) signed into law by President Obama on December 10, 2015 requires all states to include an assessment procedure for public education but leaves the details of said assessment up to the states. Oklahoma rolled out its plan for ESSA compliance this year to strong opposition. The plan faced claims that it was racist, based on misleading documentation and that it was introduced via a flawed and manipulative strategy. These claims failed to defeat HJR1028 or the trailer bill HB1693. Together these pieces of legislation bring Oklahoma into ESSA compliance and redefine the states A-F school grading scale. Legislation signed in 2016 required The new A-F school report program This whole system gives an illusion of 3 a study and development of assessment weighs students differently based manipulated improvement.” requirements that would bring upon, among other things, the color In other states implementing similar Oklahoma into ESSA compliance. of their skin. Many believe this metric, assessment strategies, A-F continues This was accomplished through a 95 instead of highlighting low-income or to be a source of varying widespread member task force that came up with an underserved areas, simply lowers the bar controversy. The National Association assessment program recommendation. and institutionalizes a racial bias against of Secondary School Principals (NASSP) The full text is available on the Oklahoma minority achievement. One of the most surveyed several state studies on State Department of Education website, vocal opponents of the new weight education performance after adopting “Overall, there will be more information system was Representative Regina A-F grading. Their results implied that in the school report cards than what Goodwin, “being poor does not equal A-F is at the very least misleading and counts for accountability. As required being dumb, and being brown does not at worst has a negative impact on the 2 by ESSA, there will be information on equal being an automatic challenge.” education systems. In the Oklahoma per-student expenditures, expenditures, Proponents of the plan say it is designed specific studies, NASSP mentioned National Assessment of Educational to close the achievement gap and simply that “A-F grades were not productive Progress (NAEP) results, participation acknowledging that since not all students for school improvement because they rates, and professional qualification of start at the same point they shouldn’t be did not explain the how or why of educators.”1 This proposal was met with treated like they do. Goodwin’s issue is low performance, and the system did opposition when the 56th Legislature that not only do they use race as one of nothing to build the capacity of schools 4 drafted language echoing the task forces the factors that automatically signals a or educators” . 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