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Key Terms & Concepts to Understand Oklahoma Government & Public Policy
The Legislative Office of Fiscal Transparency
The Legislative Office of Fiscal Transparency (LOFT) was created by SB 1 in 2019 to provide legislators with reliable, non-partisan data and other information that will “assist the Legislature in performing its constitutional and statutory function of ensuring that government funds are expended in a fiscally responsible manner.”...
Oklahoma's Legislative Process
The Oklahoma Legislature runs in two-year cycles, meaning a new session starts every two years. Within that two-yeartime frame, there is the first session and the second session. For example, the 58th Legislature consisted of 2021 and 2022. The first session of the 58th legislature was held in 2021. The section session of the 58th legislature was held in 2022...