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(access required)">2012 on track with “seismic” 2011 for laws restricting access to abortion, says center report (access required)

July 18th, 2012 · No Comments · House, Organizations, Senate

Seventeen states have passed almost 50 laws limiting women’s access to abortion thus far this year, compared with more than 60 such laws enacted by 24 states in all of 2011, which is described in a report from the Center for Reproductive Rights as “seismic” for the scope of new laws.

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(access required)">Governor signs abortion litigation, pseudoephedrine-restriction measures (access required)

May 9th, 2012 · No Comments · Executive Branch, House, Senate

Among more than two-dozen bills signed Tuesday by Gov. Mary Fallin were new laws authorizing legal actions in some abortion-related situations and restricting sales of pseudoephedrine, a drug found in cold and allergy remedies that is a key ingredient in methamphetamine production.

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(access required)">Capitol week in review … (April 30-May 4) (access required)

May 4th, 2012 · No Comments · Executive Branch, House, Senate, Week in Review

We may have our first interim study subject lined up for this year—workers’ compensation reform. Sound familiar? House Speaker Kris Steele thinks it’s ripe for another go ‘round. Well, maybe not another massive redrafting of Title 85 (that’s where workers’ comp lives, in the law books). This one would center on whether Oklahoma should join [...]

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(access required)">Anti-abortion measures pass Senate; RU-486 restriction bill on way to Fallin’s desk (access required)

April 24th, 2012 · No Comments · Senate

House bills authorizing civil actions if certain abortion requirements are not met and placing restrictions on the use of RU-486 passed the Senate Tuesday—the latter measure now on its way to the desk of Gov. Mary Fallin.

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