Tuesday, November 7, 2017
OKLAHOMA CITY – Governor Mary Fallin today issued the following statement after the House of Representatives Joint Committee on Appropriations and Budget (JCAB) voted 19-6 to advance House Bill 1054X:
“I appreciate Committee Chairman Kevin Wallace and Speaker Charles McCall for bringing this measure up for another vote, and I thank committee members for their bipartisan support of House Bill 1054X. I’m imploring Republican and Democratic House members to vote for this measure when it comes to a floor vote so that we help fill our budget hole for the current fiscal year as well as put Oklahoma on a more stable budget path. This bill allows us to address the funding of core services going forward. This also provides much-needed pay raises for public school teachers and includes pay raises for our hard-working state employees as well as tax relief for low-income Oklahomans. Let’s prove to Oklahomans that we can solve our difficult budget problem and move our state forward.”