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Oklahoma
State Senate
For Immediate Release: July 21, 2008
Senate Leaders Approve Legislative Studies (State Capitol, Oklahoma City) – The leaders of the Oklahoma State Senate announced their approval today of 33 requests for legislative studies. The study requests were approved by Senate President Pro Tempore Mike Morgan, D-Stillwater, and Co-President Pro Tempore Glenn Coffee, R-Oklahoma City. The Senate leaders said the studies are assigned to the Senate committee with jurisdiction over the subject matter contained in the request. The Senate conducts legislative studies on a variety of issues each year in the interim between legislative sessions. Interim studies offer legislators an opportunity to take a more in-depth look at an issue than is usually possible within the Constitutional time constraints of a legislative session. APPROVED SENATE INTERIM STUDIES: Agriculture and Rural Development Committee STUDY SUBJECT: Land legacy affecting military installations
and greenbelts. STUDY SUBJECT: Professional Termite Prevention. STUDY SUBJECT: Termiticide.
Appropriations Committee STUDY SUBJECT: Analysis of the cost of financing and construction
of public schools. STUDY SUBJECT: Utilizing Web 2.0 innovations in state
computing resources, including the WAVE and other state data
systems. STUDY SUBJECT: OSU division of Agricultural Sciences and
Natural Resources Experiment Stations and Extensions. STUDY SUBJECT: Funding for water and wastewater infrastructure. STUDY SUBJECT: Increasing cost of living adjustments (COLAs)
for retired educators while increasing the amount of funds being
deposited into OTRS. STUDY SUBJECT: Petroleum Storage Tank Release Environmental
Cleanup Indemnity Fund.
Business and Labor Committee STUDY SUBJECT: Workforce development, including ways for
the state to address workforce shortfalls.
Criminal Jurisprudence Committee STUDY SUBJECT: Alternatives to incarceration.
Education Committee STUDY SUBJECT: Developing a comprehensive strategy to
identify and prevent dropouts through longitudinal data systems. STUDY SUBJECT: Career Tech's current role in providing
academic and workforce training.
Energy and Environment Committee STUDY SUBJECT: Monitoring the state’s water supplies
for quality and quantity. STUDY SUBJECT: Flooding in Broken Arrow area.
Finance Committee STUDY SUBJECT: Analysis of current tax incentives.
General Government Committee STUDY SUBJECT: Flood plain boards reorganization.
Health and Human Resources Committee STUDY SUBJECT: Ambulatory plastic surgery. STUDY SUBJECT: CRNA's/anesthesiologiests and anesthesiologist
assistants. STUDY SUBJECT: Rural health and medical care, and health
care provider shortage. STUDY SUBJECT: Comprehensive assessment of healthcare
workforce issues. STUDY SUBJECT: Immunosuppressant drugs used in transplants
in Oklahoma.
Judiciary Committee SUBJECT: Enhancing penalties for operating watercraft
on state waters while under the influence. SUBJECT: Interlock devices in Oklahoma and other states. SUBJECT: Trust law in Oklahoma. SUBJECT: Requirements to become a Judge.
Public Safety and Homeland Security Committee STUDY SUBJECT: CLEET Academy training capabilities within
local jurisdictions. STUDY SUBJECT: Funding, staffing and possible expansion
of Skill Centers for inmates; comparison of Oklahoma’s
Skill Centers to those in other states.
Retirement and Insurance Committee SUBJECT: Health insurance coverage for autism.
Transportation Committee SUBJECT: Expanding passenger rail transit. SUBJECT: Alternative bridge technologies. STUDY SUBJECT: Oklahoma’s railroad system.
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