state budget

Oklahoma State Auditor and Inspector Cyndi Byrd says state agencies mismanaged or questionably spent almost $100 million in pandemic relief funds during the 2023 fiscal year. The most in a single year so far, by a long shot.

Legislators pushing toward the end of the legislative session send to governor a state appropriations and tax cut agreement and bill changing how citizens can make laws.

With just a couple of weeks remaining in the legislative session, budget negotiators have reached agreement on a deal to fund state government in Fiscal Year 2026.

Just three weeks remain in the 2025 legislative session, and time is running short to negotiate, write and pass the state budget for Fiscal Year 2026.

In our annual top ten stories of the year episodes, Shawn Ashley and Dick Pryor discuss the top Oklahoma stories of 2024 as heard on Capitol Insider. This week: 10-6.

Budget summit meetings have been moving the state budget and appropriation process forward, but lawmakers have yet to reach an agreement on the fiscal year 2025 budget.

Oklahoma legislators continue to work through a variety of issues as they craft the fiscal year 2025 state budget...and time is running short.

It appeared legislative leaders were making progress on the budget for fiscal year 2025, but now the process is starting over with less than a month left in the session.

The state House and Senate are starting to see areas of agreement as they restart the process to craft a state budget for fiscal year 2025.

Lawmakers still have heavy lifting to do on significant legislation as they head toward Sine Die Adjournment at the end of May.