Senator David Bullard (R-Durant) has finally written the proposed state question to end the bickering and posturing of our legislature, regarding 2nd amendment rights to keep & bear arms. 
  The amendment resolution needs the majority support of both houses of the legislature, but not a governor's enactment.
 The governor, however; has discretion about when the proposed state constitutional amendment would be voted upon by the people.
  This language imposes upon all state agencies and law enforcement that they have a duty to protect this individual right against any form of infringement.
  Stipulations are made to exclude those convicted of felonies, domestic violence, and those adjudicated as incompetent or involuntarily committed for mental impairment. 
  The language expressly defines arms as including the ammunition and the firearms. It also expands the definition of constitutional self defense 'arms' to include nonlethal and other arms.
​  Ask your legislators if they are willing to cosponsor this resolution. So far no one has.

  The Tuttle farmer who served on the Bicameral Marijuana Interim Study is now ready to start cutting away at the patients' rights and liberties  that were voted into law by the voters, just last June. 
  SB1030 has several changes to state law which would impact the medical patients' opportunities to remain employable, despite their health challenges.    

1. It would allow municipalities the right to ban all inhaled forms of medication consumption outside of a private residence.
2. It allows employers to fire a person just for possessing a patient card, even if they have never had THC in their system
3. It removes some of the medical privacy status of patient cardholder data.
4. It adds a local sales tax to the 7% sales tax, & removes the excise classification of the current collections.
5. It increases the criminal penalty for unlawful possession from $400 & no jail time; up to $1000 & 1 year of jail.

Nothing in the bill provides any additional help to the veterans with PTSD, or the cancer patients getting chemotherapy treatment. Both would face added struggles due to Paxton's new statutory punishments.

  Sen. Casey Murdock (R-Gymon) has filed a bill (SB325) to let counties ban cannabinoid medicines from licensed patients. His bill would also allow employers to terminate employees for-cause if there is a theoretical concern of penalty because of the employee's disability & treatment.

​  This is the first bill filed which seeks to reinstate a prohibition on physicians and patients if the county voters decide to ban the continued cannabis medicine healthcare treatments in that county.
  This is expected to harm thousands of veterans and their families, if Post Traumatic Stress care is needed for such patients. Currently many of the veterans are opting out of the VA's regimen of massive doses of tranquilizers to heavily sedate patients with PTSD, Anxiety Disorder, and other conditions from multiple deployments in battle.
  Cancer treatments may become more deadly without the cannabis meds to alleviate the severe nausea of chemotherapy. This will lead to weakened bodies and more weight loss.
  Those in pain management for severe osteoarthritis and other nerve conditions will have to go back on dangerous opioids to get very temporary relief from excruciating pain.
  This brings up a fundamental issue of whether the majority of voters have a constitutional authority to deprive the minority of lifesaving medicines?
   Sen. Casey Murdock would have us believe that the minority class of patients either.

1. can find other options that don't scare the rest of the county,
2. are faking it, or
3. are expendable;

because he believes the majority of voters' fears are a higher priority to him.

  Oklahoma has had many overdose deaths from opioid addiction. But lately there has been a terrifying and grievous string of stories from people struggling in severe chronic pain. yet their pain management physicians are cutting off their pain relief treatment because of new laws in many states.
  Senator Sharp is stepping up to give physicians more 'breathing room' to respond to the specific needs of their own patients.
SB296 is an improvement.
  This reform could not come too soon. In fact, it came too late for some patients who committed suicide because their pain made life itself unbearable., Interestingly though, cannabis medicines came to the rescue for many patients with chronic pain. Just 5 days before the Nov. 1 effective date of the Opioid crackdown, THC enriched CBD oil was legal to purchase for licensed patients.
  Many are saying that the new enriched CBD oil may work even better for some whose bodies built up a tolerance for opioid meds.
  Many voters are incensed that the Attorney General and others
used statutory powers to impose healthcare choices upon individuals, rather than respecting individual liberty and physicians' superior insights.

SB 13 Confronts All Abortions - selective or not: 

  Sen. Joseph Silk has filed a bill to criminalize all acts which result in the death of an unborn child. It calls for prison sentences of 2 years to life for anyone convicted.  It has no exceptions.
  In 1980, Ronald Reagan was asked, in a presidential debate, where he stood. He was clear. 
  "Our nation has long held to the natural law of a person's right to defend his own life from eminent death". By that reasoning, President Reagan held that conditions such as ectopic pregnancies, would necessitate the woman's right to save her own life from the eminent death of both herself & her beloved child.
  This appears to be a crucial flaw in Senator Silk's bill. the summary states; "SB 13 prohibits the use of abortion in any circumstance."
  This is one area where language appears lacking, to clarify the fundamental right of self defence. It also appears to damage the political viability of the bill, because without fundamental commitments to a woman's right of self defense, the proponents will be tarred & feathers and "willing to watch mothers die along with their beloved unborn child".
  The fundamental question of a mother's life is a preeminent matter. But matters of rape & incest are completely another issue and no baby should die because of who the father is.

  Senator Casey Murdock is a big booster of the Oklahoma farmer & rancher. And he should be, given that his district spans 9 counties in and near the Oklahoma panhandle.
  And to be fair, the ag sector has real issues which need reform in the state & federal policies.
  Why then, is he so preoccupied with a campaign to rescue the self esteem of the Ribeye steak?  And why would a politician be so divisive when the T-bone, Sirloin, Strip, Filet Mignon and other cuts are just as valid to the beef industry?
  What ought to bother the citizens of all Oklahoma even more is the cost of pressing this bill through the legislative process.
If the Legislature conducts about 300 hours of floor deliberations and votes (not to mention the committee time and the torture of every senator having to read every silly grandstanding bill); then each hour spent by the legislature has a cost to the taxpayers of about $108,000 .
That's because our legislature appropriates $32 million to it's own salaries and operations. 
​  Last weekend we had a bit of fun with Casey Murdock over this bill. I'll share it with you, below.

  It seems that the former school teacher from Owasso, Sen. JJ Dossett, is determined to make his senate chamber the state's 'at-large' super school board.
  Currently, all public schools have rules prohibiting students from using personal vaporizers on school property.  Not because these devices are inherently harmful, but one of the potential uses of the personal inhalers is to deliver a nicotine content in a steam vapor.
  These devices have a long history of use for many medical conditions. But recent innovations have resulted in a small size device which easily packs into a pocket. 
  Smoking cessation plans often utilize a 'step down' strategy, much like the patches that TSET gives away for free. 
  Sen. Dossett wants it to be a criminal act for ANYONE to possess these devices on school property. This includes the mailman, Food delivery drivers, teachers, support staff, parents visiting, and even spectators at school activities. Even when a school auditorium is rented to an outside group.
​https://legiscan.com/OK/bill/SB33/2019

  Here it is, again. The Constitutional Carry Bill, by Nathan Dahm.
This was one of the top 4 'talked about' bills of last year.
Now we have a new governor who said he'd sign it.
that means senators who voted for it, have to either support it this year or reveal themselves to be fakes.
Do you think it will become law. Will be be able to defend ourselves when the Kansans invade?
https://legiscan.com/OK/bill/SB12/2019

  Both Sen. Daniels & David have bills to repeal the auto sales tax that was imposed in 2017. Gary Richardson fought at the supreme court, but they rationalized that it's not a 'revenue raising' bill if the language removes exemptions. Gary and others argued that if that's true, then the Oklahoma Tax Commission identifies $10Billion that the legislature could raise in taxes by removing exemptions. Yet the people passed an amendment banning this.
  What the legislature did many years ago, was exempt auto purchases from sales tax(added on to the final sales price) by imposing an excise tax(included in to the final sales price). It was done so a consumer could get financing to cover the registration fees, in the price of the purchase.

  Sen Stanislawski has a bill which he says 'broadens" the language of physicians qualified to recommend. But it does the opposite.
  In reading the bill, it actually limits the authorization to just two types of physicians, even though the language of SQ788 allowed MD.s, D.O.s, Podiatrists, Optometrists, and Chiropractors.
 If your glaucoma requires a cannabis medicine, your eye doctor is not allowed to direct that treatment. Likewise if your spinal condition is causing excruciating pain, and your chiropractor opts to incorporate the naturopathic effectiveness of cannabis.
The State Health Dept. improperly banned the last 3 groups.
Stanislawski's bill would permanently fix the ban.
It does NOT broaden access or privilege, despite the claim.
https://legiscan.com/OK/bill/SB162/2019