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Calling it a major milestone, Gov. Kevin Stitt on Monday signed sweeping legislation to overhaul the state s human resources system to make it easier for agency heads to hire and fire state employees.
Flanked by state lawmakers, state agency heads and leaders of the Oklahoma Public Employees Association and State Chamber at a signing ceremony, Stitt said House Bill 1146 will give state agencies more flexibility to reward and retain hard workers.
Reforming the state s merit protection system has been a top priority for the governor, who comes from the private sector.
What the bill does
HB 1146 eliminates the state s complex system of classified and unclassified, or at-will employees, and streamlines the state s due process system to hear grievance claims more quickly.
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Alabama
Montgomery: State lawmakers have inched closer to approving a ban on so-called vaccine passports that would require proof of COVID-19 vaccination to access services from a business or state agency. The House Health Committee voted Wednesday to send the bill to House of Representatives for a vote. It has already cleared the Senate. The bill contains a number of exceptions. Surgeons, dentists, medical institutions, hospitals and other health care providers are exempted. Universities could still require students to receive a vaccine; however, there would be exceptions for vaccines approved for “emergency use” by the FDA, as is the case with all three COVID-19 vaccines given in the United States thus far. The idea of vaccine passports is to have a document that shows a person has been inoculated against COVID-19. Federal officials say there are no plans to make them broadly mandatory, but some Republican governors have issued orders b
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