Oklahoma House and Senate leaders have said this session will be all about the budget. Speaker Charles McCall says the real work is about to begin.
"Multiple vehicles have been introduced. We will start rolling language into those next week and moving those through committee to the floor of the House," McCall said. "I'm very excited about the timing of this. As I've said in the past, we are ahead of schedule."
Bills requiring only a simple majority will come first, and those requiring a three-fourths supermajority will be taken up later.
"Tax credits, deductions and exemptions would be more along the lines of your 51 votes. Your true tax-raising measures, revenue-raising measures purely on the revenue side of things, those are, obviously, a minimum of 76 votes in the House," McCall said.
The state faces an $878 million budget shortfall, which follows a $1.3 billion shortfall from last year.
