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Dick Pryor: This is Capitol Insider, your weekly look inside Oklahoma politics, policy and government. I m Dick Pryor with eCapitol news director, Shawn Ashley. So far, this legislative session has been highlighted by several bills that may have important implications but have received attention in large part because of their political shock value. There s been a lot of posturing on social issues, but these kinds of bills often generate more heat than light and wind up not becoming law. So rather than give more oxygen to those bills, today let s talk about some substantive legislation that may not be getting attention but could affect a lot of people. Shawn, first, an update is in the works for the Oklahoma Quality Jobs Program.
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Dick Pryor: This is Capitol Insider, your weekly look inside Oklahoma politics, policy and government. I m Dick Pryor with eCapitol news director, Shawn Ashley. It s been an eventful last week at the legislature, and we ll get to that in a minute, but first - coronavirus. On Thursday, Governor Stitt followed Texas, Mississippi and some other states in ending coronavirus limitations in the state. Shawn, what exactly did the governor do?
Shawn Ashley: Well, the governor is terminating the provisions of his COVID-19 State of Emergency Executive Order that really are public facing - that affect the public. Those would include the mask mandate in state government buildings for both staff and visitors and also eliminating the limitation on the size of social and public gatherings in attendance limits that youth, sporting events and extracurricular activities.
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Oklahoma legislators have a busy week ahead with each house needing to address approximately 300 bills by the Thursday, March 11 deadline. Expect some late