Senate President Pro Tem Greg Treat and Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Senator Roger Thompson are calling out the House for not providing budget numbers to begin negotiations yet. They have stopped hearing House bills assigned to the Senate Appropriations Committee until the House provides those numbers.
Treat implemented a new transparent procedure to form this year’s budget.
The Oklahoman’s Murray Evans and M. Scott Carter write House Appropriations Chair Representative Kevin Wallace contends budget negotiators need to address a $20 million error in last year’s budget for the Oklahoma State Department of Education before moving to this year’s budget.
Read The Oklahoman story here.
