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Committee advances multiple naming, license-plate and memorial bills; three items laid over
Summary
The Transportation Committee advanced a set of mostly non-controversial bills — including highway and bridge namings, a zoo license plate agreement and other routine measures — and laid over three items for future consideration.
The Senate Transportation Committee considered and advanced a number of relatively routine measures, many with brief presentations and little debate. Bills advanced on unanimous or near-unanimous votes included: Senate Bill 61 (name a section of Highway 78 after Officer Lori Thomas), Senate Bill 979 (name a bridge over Highway 69 after Novak and Gene Bullard), Senate Bill 69 (name a section of Highway 102 after Sergeant First Class Thomas Avery), Senate Bill 837 (license agreement for an Oklahoma City Zoo specialty license plate with up to $20 per plate payable to the Oklahoma Zoological Society), Senate Bill 459 (designate US Highway 77 and State Highway 11 as the Ike Glass Memorial intersection), Senate Bill 412 (bridge naming), and other memorial namings.
The committee reported votes and outcomes for these items as recorded during the hearing: SB61 advanced (12 ayes, 0 nays); SB979 advanced (12 ayes, 0 nays); SB69 advanced (12 ayes, 0 nays); SB837 advanced (voice roll-call recorded as advancing); SB459 advanced (12 ayes, 0 nays); SB412 advanced (12 ayes, 0 nays). The committee also announced it would lay over three items — agenda items 1, 5 and 8 (bills referenced as 1108, 64 and 67 in committee remarks) — for future consideration.
Most naming bills drew personal remarks from sponsors and occasional brief comments from committee members; SB837 prompted questions about a repealer and the existing Oklahoma Zoological Society revolving fund, and the sponsor said Service Oklahoma and agency staff concluded a licensing agreement path was appropriate to enable the zoo plate.
