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Sun May 28, 2006

Legislation this session

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Signed into law
HB 2615: Stand Your Ground provides immunity from criminal prosecution or civil action for using justifiable deadly force.

SB 1742: Anti-abortion measures

SB 1037: Caitlin Wooten's law, tightening bail regulations

HB 2895: Wheat harvest bill, makes it easier for custom harvesters to get a harvesting permit

SB 806: Legalizes tattooing

SB 1479: Strenthens penalties against predators who solicit minors online and forms an Internet Crimes Against Children unit in the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation.

SB 1858: Makes it first-degree murder for someone killed in a police chase.

SB 1089: Bans sale of lottery tickets at pawn shops, pay-day loan offices and check cashing businesses.

SB 1624: Strenthens Oklahoma's living will law.

SB 1795: Requires vision screening for children before enrolling in kindergarten as well as first or third grades.

HB 2840: Kelsey Briggs law, reforms the state's child welfare system.

Awaiting governor's signature
HB 3004: Adds violent video games to the list of items deemed harmful to minors, which would make it illegal to sell those games to children.

HB 2813: Provides penalties for people whose dogs bite a person who is lawfully on public or private property.

SB 1951: Extends the ban on funeral protests to within 500 feet of any place where a portion of a funeral service is held.

HB 2842: Would reform the state's Medicaid system.

SB 1800: Would make repeat sex offenders who commit certain crimes against a child under 14 eligible for the death penalty.

SB 1964: Would increase penalties for sex offenders, including prohibiting registered sex offenders from living within 2,000 feet of parks and playgrounds and putting mandatory sentences in place for child molesters, conference committee report submitted.

SB 1577 : Would plug a tax credit loophole that could cost the state hundreds of millions of dollars if left unchecked.

Died this session
HB 2958: Would give a tax credit to parents who stay home with their children.

HB 3122: Would give a tax credit for those who donate to charities.

HB 2408: Would fund gambling addiction treatment.

HB 3120: Would further reform the state's court system.

HJR 1057: Would send to a vote of the people a restriction on governments using eminent domain purely for economic gain.

SJR 53: Would send to the vote of the people a 6 percent plus inflation spending cap on government.

HJR 1035: Would increase the amount of money the state can place in its Constitutional Reserve Fund, often called the Rainy Day Fund.

HB 2107: Would have given teachers the academic freedom to present the scientific debate on evolution.

HB 2158: Would require that children's books containing homosexual content and pervasively vulgar and sexually explicit material be shelved in the adult area of the library.

HB 3119: Would have required state employees to report illegal immigrants seeking state services to the federal authorities.

SB 1815: Would delay until 2008 when electronic campaign report filing would start.

SB 1030: Would authorize the Department of Public Safety to create a statewide 800 megahertz public safety communication system.

SB 1434: Would allow Oklahoma pharmacies to reimport FDA-approved drugs from Canada and other industrialized nations.

SB 1665: Would create a sales tax holiday during first weekend in August.

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