The Metropolis Sentinel, Employees Report
OKLAHOMA CITY – A invoice to make sure Oklahomans are knowledgeable in regards to the prices related to a state query and the place that funding might come from is now regulation. Senate Invoice 947, by two Oklahoma Metropolis legislators was signed by Gov. Kevin Stitt on Tuesday (April 27).
“We’ve labored diligently to extend fiscal transparency and accountability in state authorities. This actually is an extension of this effort,” Senator Paul Rosino, R-Oklahoma Metropolis, stated.
“This can merely ensure that if a state query has a price, it has to say so on the poll description in addition to the way it might be paid for. That is primary info residents ought to have with a purpose to make knowledgeable selections once they forged their ballots.”
Underneath S.B. 947, poll titles must embody details about whether or not a state query would have a fiscal impression, together with the quantity and the place the funding might come from, resembling federal funding, or a legislative appropriation, which can require a brand new tax, a rise of an current tax, or elimination of current companies. The requirement would apply to state questions created by the initiative petition course of in addition to these submitted by the Legislature.
“Earlier than Oklahomans vote on a query that would lead to new state regulation, they need to bear in mind if there can be a possible value and potential sources of funding. This invoice ensures they’ve that info,” State Rep. Tammy West, R-Oklahoma Metropolis, in a press launch despatched to CapitolBeatOK.com, The Metropolis Sentinel newspaper and different information organizations.
West, the main Home sponsor of the laws, added, “I’m grateful to Senator Rosino and the governor for serving to move this commonsense laws.”
The laws garnered overwhelming Republican help in each the Senate and Home, with Democrats in opposition.
S.B. 947 secured a 36-8 majority within the higher chamber (with three members not voting), and a 70-18 margin (with 13 not voting) within the decrease chamber.
Senate Invoice 947 will take impact Nov. 1, 2023.
Notice: Pat McGuigan contributed to this report.
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