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HB 1738 failed on the House floor Tuesday, March 15, in a tie vote 49-49.  However, the author held the bill over on a motion to reconsider.  HB 1738, which freezes the state employee benefit allowance for three years, could come up any time in the next two days.  Continue calling on both bills.  HB 1737 will be up on Wednesday.  To contact your legislator click here.  To see how your legislator voted on HB 1738, click here.

Posted on Tue, March 15, 2011 by Trish Frazier

3 comments (Add your own)

1. Bobby wrote:
According to the house bill summary on HB 1737, removing active state employees from the Blending formula will save 15% on premiums for THE STATE but end up increasing premiums for retirees, municipal employees and teachers by 5%. That 5% comes directly out of retirees pockets. Consider that there will probably not be any COLAS along with the normal increase in insurance premiums and now an additional 5% on top of that and I have to think that it is becomeing clear that retirees are of no value to the state. I always heard that you can tell a lot about a people by the way they treat their seniors. I'm not feeling very valued at this point. I feel like I am getting kicked out on an ice flow. Solving the states problems this way is not within the values of most Oklahomans.

Wed, March 16, 2011 @ 2:50 PM

2. Mike Rogers wrote:
I feel that some of our legislators have forgotten the golden rule. I doubt very much that if the roles were reversed they would appreciate what is being done. State workers make up less then 1% of the total population of the state, yet they are trying to balance 100% of the budget on our backs. I have lost so much in my pay check, I could actually buy more with my money 5 years ago then what I can buy now. All state workers need to come together now and fight for what is right.

Wed, March 16, 2011 @ 3:19 PM

3. Khan wrote:
I hear you Mike. I did some checking and using an online inflation adjustment calculator, my position had slightly more earning power in 2000 than now.

If they want to run us so much like the private sector, then they need to give us annual cost of living increases like many in the private sector get. Not every other year, or 5 years or whenever they feel generous.

If they had kept us up to date with the cost of living during the good years, it would be alot less painful to sacrifice during the bad.

WHY did the past administration and legislative sessions not take care of us when the oil money was running out of the state's ears? Oh I remember why, that money went to teachers.

Wed, March 16, 2011 @ 5:33 PM

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