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Julie Daniels

Julie Daniels

Member of the Oklahoma Senate

Jul 22, 2026

45:33
Tell us about that.
45:34
We did, and it was sort of unexpected.
45:36
We were organized this time.
45:38
I have to commend our state chamber for being fully on board with us.
45:42
And working with our Oklahoma Council for Public Affairs, we managed to raise more money and spend more money than those who were opposed to the question.
45:50
Of course, we knew the fundamentals were in our favor because it's a very bad thing to do for our economy.
45:57
But the people were listening and they did understand that we are on a roll in Oklahoma.
48:55
does behind-the-meter mean? Does that mean stranded natural gas, you go and you get your own gas and...
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16:45
going
16:45
to ask myself my own question.
16:47
I had a great year.
16:50
I had 31 pieces of legislation, 15 House bills, 16 Senate bills, all signed by the governor.
16:55
I'm very grateful.
16:56
Several of those were housekeeping bills, a little bit like Judd's, doing some reform to boards and commissions and repealing stuff we don't need anymore.
17:03
It's just gathering dust and confusing us and wasting a little bit of money.

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28:53
So I'm going
78:48
How did you get tort reform done?
78:50
We haven't got it all done, but first, we got it done by having it fail for a number of years, keeping the good ideas going, waiting for the right combination of a new speaker and a new pro tem who wanted to embrace, uh, these reforms.
79:04
The biggest thing we did was to overturn a 2019 Oklahoma Supreme Court decision that got rid of the cap on non-economic damages, which the Republicans struggled for 100 years to gain a majority in the legislature, and this was one of the key reforms that were passed in the last 15 years.
79:21
So to watch our court chip away at some of these reforms, workers' comp was another one, was really sad for those of us who came behind the people who fought to get-
81:43
Okay.
81:43
There is still more we can do in the regulatory space.
81:46
We do have some issues with mental health care in Oklahoma, as we do in other states.
81:52
We need to address those.

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