2025 OK Legislative Scorecard

SB176 requires health benefit plans that offer coverage for FDA-approved “contraceptive drugs” to cover an initial three-month supply and then a recurrent six-month supply.

The House passed SB176 on May 21, 2025, by a vote of 30 to 16. We have assigned pluses to the nays because this bill permits health insurers to provide year-round coverage for at-home abortions. Hormonal birth-control drugs, which include the “morning-after” pill (e.g., Plan B), function not only as “contraceptives,” but as abortifacients. Abortion is murder, and no person has a right to kill a preborn child. Since the care of human life—not its destruction—is the greatest responsibility of government, Oklahoma ought to abolish abortion entirely. The right to life is the most fundamental, God-given, and “unalienable” right mentioned in the Declaration of Independence and secured by the Fifth and 14th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.

SB1126 allocates approximately $3.98 billion in funding to the State Department of Education from the General Appropriations bill for FY 2025-26. The Senate passed SB1126 on May 20, 2025, by a vote of 31 to 15. We have assigned pluses to the nays because education is not the role of government—it is the responsibility of a child’s parents or family. Schools can and should be privatized, without any need for public funding that steals from taxpayers (e.g., property taxes) and drains the treasury. If not dismantled, the government’s monopoly on preK-12 education will continue to displace traditional private schools and homeschooling in favor of universal state-sponsored schooling. The best “school choice,” by far, is for parents to choose not to place their child’s education in the hands of the state. Educational and economic freedom cannot be achieved by forcing other citizens to give up their hard-earned tax dollars for all that now entails a compulsory, failing, and government-run school system.

SB269 gives the Oklahoma Corporation Commission exclusive jurisdiction over Class VI CO2 injection wells and related storage units.

The Senate passed SB269 on May 13, 2025, by a vote of 27 to 15. We have assigned pluses to the nays because the recent and dangerous expansion of carbon-capture storage systems in the United States is closely connected to the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda for “sustainable development,” which seeks to codify extreme “environmental justice” measures into state law. Its push for a “green” or “decarbonized” economy on behalf of “vulnerable populations” is nothing other than a fanatical attempt by globalist elites to increase their taxing power and authority. The abuse of eminent domain for these carbon-capture pipelines encroaches upon the constitutionally protected property rights of Oklahomans. If America is to truly remain the “land of the free,” then the States and the people must reject the hoax of “climate change” and put an end to the global war on farmers and ranchers.

HB2110, the “Bringing Sitcoms Home from Hollywood Pilot Program Act,” establishes tax-incentive rebate payments for live audience episodic television in Oklahoma.

The Senate passed HB2110 on May 6, 2025, by a vote of 31 to 14. We have assigned pluses to the nays because government has absolutely no business subsidizing the entertainment industry. Multi-millionaire Hollywood producers can more than afford to pay their own taxes, and deserve no special carve-out. “Economic development” is too often simply a cliché or code word used to finance crony elite-driven “pork-barrel” projects that violate the principles of free-market enterprise. The U.S. Constitution’s Bill of Rights and 14th Amendment were written to promote the “general Welfare” of all Americans, not to pick economic “winners” and “losers.”

SB990 would authorize the Legislature to initiate a recall election to remove a statewide elected official from office.

The Senate passed SB990 on March 27, 2025, by a vote of  31 to 15. We have assigned pluses to the nays because recall elections are illegitimate populist measures designed to circumvent the longstanding constitutional remedies of impeachment and expulsion. As with referendums and “citizens’ initiatives,” they relegate the solemn duties of the people’s elected representatives to the will of the masses at large, replacing checks and balances with chaos and instability. Article VIII, Section 1 of the Oklahoma Constitution reserves impeachment for statewide officials who engage in unlawful activity or fail to fulfill their responsibilities. Moreover, 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,” as opposed to the unbridled whims of “majority rule." Recall elections are one of the many “dangers of democracy” that subject citizens and lawmakers alike to the “tyranny of the majority.”