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OK DOC funding bill survives committee vote
By tulsaworld.com- Randy Krehbiel
Published: 05/06/2014

OKLAHOMA CITY - A $13 million supplemental appropriation for the Department of Corrections survived a harrowing afternoon in a House of Representatives committee on Monday, passing by a single vote over the objections of legislators unhappy with recent DOC decisions.

Senate Bill 2126, which DOC says it needs to get through the last two months of the budget year ending June 30, sailed through the Senate portion of the Joint Appropriations and Budget Committee on Monday morning without a syllable of dissent.

As is often the case, things were a little stickier on the House side. SB 2126 won the committee's recommendation by a count of 9-8, with 12 members of the committee - including 11 Republicans - staying away.

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