For Immediate Release:
April 14, 2004
Senate Sends Tort Reform Measure to Conference Committee
TESTIMONY IN OPEN HEARINGS SCHEDULED TO BEGIN THURSDAY
The State Senate approved House
Bill 2661 Wednesday, officially sending the measure to a
House-Senate Conference Committee.
The 23 members of a special House-Senate committee on tort
reform are scheduled to hear testimony in the first of four
scheduled open hearings at 1 p.m. Thursday. Senator Mike
Morgan and Representative Jari
Askins will serve as co-chairs of the committee.
“This was an important vote, but the most serious
work on the issue of tort reform is still ahead of us. We’re
going to get down to the business of taking sworn testimony
on Thursday. Over the next four weeks we will gather information
from attorneys, doctors, the insurance industry and the
general public. Our goal is to use that information to write
a reform measure that will work for Oklahoma,” the
Stillwater Democrat said.
Senate President Pro Tempore Cal
Hobson, D-Lexington, and House Speaker Larry Adair,
D-Stilwell, have indicated that the members of the special
committee will be named as the members of the conference
committee that will write the final version on the bill.
The Senate adopted the House version of the measure on a
36-7 vote.
For
more information contact:
President
Pro Tempore's Office - (405) 521-5605
