2024 OK Legislative Scorecard

SB1192 directs the transfer of $8.1 million to the Department of Human Services for additional “food insecurity” grants.

The Senate passed SB1192 on May 28, 2024, by a vote of 37 to 4. We have assigned pluses to the noes because providing “food insecurity” grants is not the legitimate object of government. There exists no “right to food” apart from a person working to provide it themselves or having received it privately and voluntarily from someone else. Taxation in the name of “social welfare” is neither just nor charitable. This bill relies on the unconstitutional and discriminatory use of federal and state taxpayer money on behalf of some citizens (particularly those who have little or no tax liability) at the expense of others, causing more debt, dependency, and poverty. States must firmly reject the notion of "food security,” which the United Nations’ Agenda 2030 “Zero Hunger” initiative describes as a “precondition for the full enjoyment of the right to food,” based on Article 25 of the socialist Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

  SB1334 requires all health benefit plans to provide coverage for “standard fertility preservation services” for individuals diagnosed with cancer and who are within reproductive age, when a medically necessary treatment may directly or indirectly cause infertility. The Senate passed SB1334 on May 22, 2024, by a vote of 29 to 8. We have assigned pluses to the nays because “standard fertility preservation services” involve “ocyte and sperm preservation procedures, including ovarian tissue, sperm, and oocyte cryopreservation.” They are simply the first steps of the exact same process used during the life-destroying practices of in vitro fertilization (IVF) and other assisted reproductive technologies, through which the vast majority of embryos conceived outside the womb are aborted or indefinitely frozen, resulting in the killing or cryo-incarceration of millions of preborn children every year. Given that the care of human life—not its destruction—is the greatest responsibility of government, IVF must not be viewed as the solution to infertility. Oklahoma ought to forbid abortion and cryo-orphaning entirely, upholding the sanctity of life for every person. The right to life is the most fundamental, God-given, and “unalienable” right asserted in the Declaration of Independence and protected by the Fifth and 14th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.

HB3156 prohibits the use of ranked-choice voting to conduct any election and nullifies any existing or future adoption of a voting system in conflict with this measure. The Senate passed HB3156 on April 24, 2024, by a vote of 37 to 8. We have assigned pluses to the ayes because all attempts to enact ranked-choice voting should be opposed. This complicated, multiple-round, and unconstitutional method weakens election integrity by allowing a candidate to potentially win without genuine support from a plurality of voters. The scheme's ballot casting procedures cause voter disenfranchisement by undermining each citizen's right to vote and could deny them from being able to select the one and only candidate of their choice.

HB3959 creates the Major Sports Leagues Rebate Program Act, which allows professional sports teams in the state to receive up to $10 million per year in cash incentive payments.

The Senate passed HB3959 on April 24, 2024, by a vote of 35 to 9. We have assigned pluses to the nays because government has absolutely no business subsidizing professional sports. Privately-owned billion-dollar organizations, such as the Oklahoma City Thunder, can and should be expected to compete and operate in a free market. “Economic development” is merely a cliché or code word used by cronies to coerce taxpayers into paying proliferate amounts of money to fund corporate-sponsored spending bills outside the limited purpose and scope of government. Not surprisingly, this bill is dependent on the income tax, which itself is an immoral, anti-constitutional act of government-imposed theft that takes from citizens the wages they have rightfully earned.

SJR34 would, if approved by voters, amend the Oklahoma Constitution by granting the Governor the power to nominate and appoint all judicial officers with the advice and consent of the Senate.

The Senate passed SJR34 on March 12, 2024, by a vote of 32 to 14. We have assigned pluses to the yeas because the 15-member Judicial Nominating Commission, which includes six publicly unelected members of the Oklahoma Bar Association, functions as a nepotic scheme to circumvent representative government “of, by, and for the people.” Article IV, Section 4, of the U.S. Constitution guarantees “to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government,” meaning government limited to the “rule of law,” with a separation of powers among members of the legislative, executive, and judicial branches, each of whom derives their civil authority from the people. Yet, Oklahoma’s judicial system is only as good as it applies “the supreme Law of the Land.” Our federal system of checks and balances was designed so that no person may legitimately be appointed to any non-elected public office apart from having been nominated in good faith by, or confirmed with the consent of, at least one of the elected bodies of government.