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Legislative

The Legislative Monitoring Committee focuses on the following measures:

  • Administration of justice
  • Court organization, selection, tenure, salary and other incidents of the judicial office
  • Rules and laws affecting practice and procedure in the courts and in administrative bodies exercising adjudicatory functions
  • The practice of law

OBA Bylaws Art. VIII Sec 3

Legislative Proposals and Endorsements in Principle:

  • The House of Delegates has the authority to place a measure on the Legislative Program or to endorse it in principle, with at least a 60% vote.

OBA Bylaws Art. VIII Sec 5

Action by the Association upon proposals for improvement of the law by legislation or by judicial rule shall consist of:

  • Adoption as part of the Legislative Program of the Association;
  • Endorsement in principle.

OBA Bylaws Art. VIII Sec 2

OBA Day at the Capitol

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Legislative Monitoring
AGENDA

Agenda is subject to change.

Time Topic/Event Speaker/Location
9:30 a.m. Registration Emerson Hall
Oklahoma Bar Center
1901 N. Lincoln Blvd., OKC
10:00 a.m. Welcome D. Kenyon Williams Jr., OBA President
10:05 a.m. Bills of Interest to the Attorney General's Office Gentner Drummond, Oklahoma Attorney General
10:15 a.m. Judicial Nominating Commission James D. Bland – Steidley & Neal; Oklahoma Judicial Nominating Commission

Clay Taylor – Taylor Capitol Group
10:45 a.m. Discussion of the Governor’s Agenda and Supporting Bills Ben Lepak, General Counsel – Executive Office of the Governor
11:15 a.m. BREAK
11:30 a.m. Bills of Interest to the Judiciary The Honorable Thad Balkman, District Judge, Cleveland County
11:55 a.m. Information and Questions Teena Gunter, General Counsel – Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry;
Legislative Monitoring Committee Chair
12:00 p.m. LUNCH
12:15 p.m. How to Talk to Legislators Clay Taylor – Taylor Capitol Group

Brett Robinson, Managing Principal – HB Strategies, Vice Chair Legislative Monitoring Committee
1 – 3 p.m. Visit with Legislators State Capitol Building
2300 N. Lincoln, OKC

This event has been approved for 2.5 hours general MCLE credit.

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