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House Votes To Double Some County Clerk Filing Fees (SB442)

4/9/2019

Rep. Tom Gann of Mayes County was the lone holdout in an overwhelming vote to double the cost for individuals to fail records at their county clerk's office.
Rep. Mark Lawson presented the bill on the floor and said that the fee was set at $5 in 2001. If it becomes law, the fee will be $10.
County Clerks would receive a huge windfall by this action and citizens would have no opt out. Registering transactions at the county clerk's office is an essential means of protecting ownership of real property and establishing proprietorship.
Some argue that this is just one of many examples where govt. creates a greater burden on the people. Electronic record keeping ought to be lowering the cost to county govt., but in this case we just doubled the cost. Other's say this is actually a 'user fee' and not a tax.

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Epilepsy Training Mandate Bill Fails (Hb2594)

4/9/2019

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The Senate Republicans on the Education committee were split on the matter of forcing private education groups to pay for their staff's own training to comply with a proposed new state mandate. The vote was 7-7.
Senators Bullard, Haste, Smalley & Duggar decided to force faith based private schools to provide the training to their staff, many of whom are volunteers. The 3 Democrats all voted for the bill.
But Senators Scott, Newhouse, Stanislawski, Pemberton, Shaw, Pederson, & Kidd were not willing to force religious education entities to comply and bear the financial burden of compliance.
The bill will probably return in the next session in a form which focuses on public schools without the creation of a imposition on ministries and other private education providers. Rep. Echols is the author.

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House Votes To Double Some County Clerk Filing Fees (SB442)

Epilepsy Training Mandate Bill Fails (Hb2594)

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