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Each week, Rep. Murphey sends out an email update about what is happening in the legislature. If you do not already get this update and would like to receive it please list your email address:

Property Tax Reform
More information: http://www.HD31.org/89
Rep Murphey Supports This Proposal

The Legislature will send to the people a ballot question to slow the rate of property tax increases. Under the proposal, property tax assessments could not be increased by more than 3% each year. You will get to vote on this proposal during the 2012 general election.

State Agency Consolidation
More information: http://www.HD31.org/92
Rep Murphey Supports This Proposal

On behalf of House Speaker Kris Steele, Rep. Murphey developed and presented the Legislature with a proposal to consolidate several state agencies. The proposal would merge the Office of State Finance, Department of Central Services, Office of Personnel Management, Employees Benefits Council and the state’s employee insurance state agency. If signed into law this would be one of the first meaningful state agency consolidations to occur in the past several years.

Transparency of Government Documents
More information: http://www.HD31.org/93
Rep Murphey Supports This Proposal

Rep. Murphey has sponsored this bill which would require that many state government documents will be placed online at a one-stop web portal where they can be searched by the public.

Ending Taxpayer Money for Public Art
More information: http://www.HD31.org/94
Rep Murphey Supports This Proposal

The House and Senate have both approved placing a three-year moratorium on taxpayer funding for certain types of publicly funded public art.

Tort Reform
More information: http://www.HD31.org/95
Rep Murphey Supports This Proposal

The 2011 tort reform proposal places a cap of $350,000 on the non-economic damages which can be awarded in a civil trial.

Open Carry
More information: http://www.HD31.org/96
Rep Murphey Supports This Proposal

This legislation would allow concealed carry licensees to open carry. The legislation would match similar provisions already in law in a number of other states.

Pension Reform
More information: http://www.HD31.org/97
Rep Murphey Supports This Proposal

The Legislature has considered a series of initiatives to shore up Oklahoma’s public employee pension funds. These funds contain billions of dollars of unfunded liabilities and in the event of an economic downturn could face serious solvency challenges.

Changing Prison Sentence Guidelines
More information: http://www.HD31.org/98
Rep Murphey Opposed This Proposal

The Legislature has considered multiple measures to lighten prison sentencing guidelines such as changing the presumption of consecutive and concurrent sentencing and enabling GPS monitoring of convicted criminals who could serve part of their time at home while they are still in state custody.

Provider Fee/Tax
More information: http://www.HD31.org/100
Rep Murphey Opposed This Proposal

A legislative proposal would place a fee on hospital-based transactions. The fee would be used to leverage money from the federal Medicaid program and would expand the number of individuals who would receive Medicaid in Oklahoma.

Health Care Insurance Exchange
More information: http://www.HD31.org/99
Rep Murphey Opposed This Proposal

This bill would establish a health care insurance exchange network which would match individuals with health insurance coverage. The proposal is a component of the new Federal health care law.

Please list any additional comments you may have about the bills on the survey.