Today, Oklahoma Senator Kendal Sacchieri made an extremely important Facebook post.
I know. How unbelievable. Our Oklahoma government lied to us.
Seriously, in the world of “unfunny” this is it. Please contact Governor Stitt’s office and ask him to prevent Service Oklahoma from uploading ALL of Oklahoma’s driver’s license data to the national REAL ID database.
In America, everyone should have a choice as to how their data is shared. We should have the absolute RIGHT to say we don’t want an ID that could easily become a digital ID.
ROPE Report has followed REAL ID and it’s privacy concern for years. If you’d like more information, please see the following links for more on the topic:
Tuesday, April 29th, SB224 – Creating the Oklahoma Education and Workforce Statewide Longitudinal Data System – was brought to the floor for a House vote following passage in the Senate 33 to 13. The bill failed in the House 35 to 56 with 7 absent.
At that time, author Representative Caldwell captured the bill to be reheard at a later time.
Thursday, May 1, the bill came to the House floor again, where it was voted down Ayes: 46 Nays: 37.
Then, a Motion to Rescind THAT vote was adopted Ayes: 51 Nays: 32.
The measure THEN passes Ayes: 51 Nays: 36 without the emergency clause.
Representative Tom Gann – who argued against the bill on the floor – wrote a Press Release concerning the unprecedented THREE votes the bill received on the 1st. That press release was read live on the air after it was sent, but Gann was advised that it would NOT be placed on the House website for publication. Please see below for a copy of that press release.
Rep.-Tom Gann, R-Inola Issues Statement on Bonus Vote of SB224 and Warns of the Dangers of Setting New Policy
Representative Tom Gann released the following statement on the unprecedented bonus vote taken by the house on Thursday on Senate Bill 224.
“On Thursday, May 1, 2025, Representative Kyle Hilbert, Speaker of the House, took actions regarding SB224 that did not align with the House Rules of the 60th Legislature.
House rules dictate that once a bill is defeated it is not eligible for additional consideration. The House vote to defeat SB224 was considered final action under the rules.
However, Hilbert, while presiding over the house allowed an additional bonus vote to occur by which the bill was approved. This breaks with years of clearly established House precedent that prevents never ending bonus votes on failed legislation and opens up a Pandoras box of potential abuse.
What other bills will be allowed a bonus vote?”
The relevant house rule and written precedent are attached to this release.
House Rule 6, Bills And Resolutions,
6.8 – Final Action
(a) The following action shall constitute final action on any bill or resolution:
1. committee recommendation, including any oversight committee recommendation or any policy committee recommendation of “Do Not Pass”;
2. if a motion to reconsider the vote on Third Reading orFourth Reading fails to prevail or expires;
3. if a motion to table the motion to reconsider prevails; or
4. if a vote is taken on Third Reading or Fourth Reading and no notice is served to reconsider the vote.
(b) If final action is such as to defeat a bill or resolution,no other bill or resolution having the same effect and covering thesame specific subject matter shall be considered by the House ofRepresentatives during either session of the current Legislature.
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On page 209 of Precedents
6.8 – 4 (2010) Motion to Rescind May Not Be Used to Avoid Final Action
Rule – House Rule 6.8, paragraph (a) states in part:
(a) The following action shall constitute final action on any billor resolution:
…a motion to reconsider the vote on Third Reading or FourthReading [that] fails to prevail…
History – Representative Nelson moved to reconsider the vote whereby Senate Bill 2207 failed, which motion failed of adoption. Representative Nelson moved to rescind the vote whereby the reconsideration motion failed.
Representative Reynolds raised a point of order stating that the motion to rescind was dilatory.
Wednesday, March 5th, Michael and I talked to Jana Belcher and Robert Scott – both Homeschooling parents who have been heavily involved in lobbying the legislature to remove homeschoolers from the Parental Choice Tax Credit voucher legislation. It was a really great conversation and covered much more than just homeschooling. Please find the full live video here on our YouTube channel and on Rumble as well.
For years, trying to fight this tax credit, so many of us have said that private schools will just raise their rates once the tax credit comes online. If more students come to the school, more teachers and instructional materials will be necessary, raising the price. And not only that, it just gives a school a good excuse to raise rates. In the clip below, Robert gives an example of exactly that happening.
In the clip below, Robert talks about the data bill we’ve been warning about. Though we didn’t talk about the specific inclusion of homeschoolers in the database, years ago when Julia Seay, Lynn Habluetzel and I were studying data collection and trying to stop implementation of a State Longitudinal Database, we had found information indicating that there were fields in the database for collecting data related to homeschooling – which concerned a whole lot of homeschoolers.
And finally, in the last clip I pulled from the full video, Robert shows us that every individual who files for the Oklahoma Parental Choice Tax Credit has their name and the amount of their tax credit listed in the Oklahoma Tax Commission, Tax Credits database online. There is no address or phone number listed, just the name and the amount of the tax credit, but the point is, anyone can look you up to see your ‘award’.
Below is a PDF of Robert’s slide presentation. Please share this information with friends and family – and especially homeschoolers who want to take this government handout.
