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Senator Yek (introduced at the committee's request) summarized Keith Ventress’s banking background, noting he is president, CEO and director of the Oklahoma Bank and Trust Company in Clinton and that his experience informed his first term on the authority; Yek asked that Ventress be allowed to answer committee questions.
A legislative committee met to consider nominations and several House bills, including a proposal to create an education infrastructure loan program for charter and nonprofit private schools (HB 1590), changes to agricultural sales tax exemptions (HB 1242), a tax deduction for insurance-loss savings accounts (HB 3818), and clarifications to affordable-housing assessment rules (HB 4305). The committee approved multiple nominations and advanced several bills, with recorded roll-call votes on several items.
