OK House, Senate Wrap Sessions For Year
Tulsa World: Oklahoma House has anticlimactic early end to session
By RANDY KREHBIEL World Staff Writer on May 24, 2013
OKLAHOMA CITY — The Oklahoma House of Representatives wound down the 2013 legislative session Friday night, not so much adjourning as wandering away.
With the Senate long gone and the big issues settled, the 101-member House had dwindled to 63 hardy souls by the time the last vote was taken at 7:34 p.m. on a bill concerning candidate declaration forms.
It was the oddest, most anticlimactic ending to a session in memory.
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NewsOK: Oklahoma lawmakers wrap up session
By Michael McNutt
Oklahoma legislators, with deals made more than a month ago on reducing the state personal income tax rate and a major overhaul of the state workers’ compensation, ground through a number of bills Friday before wrapping up this year’s session with little fanfare.
Unlike last year when the state budget was approved on the second-last day of session, lawmakers this year approved the $7.1 billion budget days ago.