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We met our final committee deadline last week to advance House Bills approved in their chamber out of our Senate committees. The House sent us about 400 measures, and we approved approximately 300 of them. These bills are now eligible to be heard on the Senate floor. We’ll spend the next two weeks hearing and debating these bills ahead of the April 22 deadline for them to be approved from the floor.

I was honored to present three chaplains of the week from Senate District 19 last week. Pastor Mark McAdow from Willow View United Methodist Church in Enid was our Senate chaplain on Monday, Pastor...