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The state agencies make up the machinery of government for the state. All agencies are within one of the three branches of the government of Oklahoma . Pursuant to the provisions of the Executive Branch Reform Act of 1986 , all executive branch agencies are organized under a Cabinet Secretary .
Then, in 1941, the 18th Legislature amended the Oklahoma Unemployment Compensation Law extensively, changing the name to the Oklahoma Security Act, and renamed administration of the Act from the Commissioner of Labor to the Oklahoma Employment Security Commission. By FY 1940-41, the Department of Labor had been reduced to 16 employees operating ...
The Office of State Finance was created in 1947 by Governor of Oklahoma Robert S. Kerr to replace the State Budget Office. In April 2010, Governor Brad Henry appointed the Oklahoma's first chief information officer following legislation passed in the last session of 2009 modernizing Oklahoma's state government information technology system.
The Oklahoma Public Employees Retirement System (OPERS) is an agency of the government of Oklahoma that manages the public pension system for majority of Oklahoma state employees. 74 Okla.Statutes §§901 et seq. The System provides pension benefits such as normal retirement, disability retirement, surviving spouse benefits and a death benefit.
The secretary of transportation is one of the few cabinet secretaries whose annual salary is not set by law. [3] As such, it is left to the governor to determine the position's salary through the annual budget. Despite this, if the secretary serves as the head of a state agency, the secretary receives the higher of the two salaries.
Kevin Stitt appointed Bingman to serve as secretary of state in 2020, and then also secretary of Native American affairs. He resigned from his dual posts in 2023 to run for the commission.
Deals on vehicles and jewelry through a U.S. government auction website were a steal in more ways than one: An Oklahoma man pleaded guilty to hacking a website to buy the items for $1 each ...
Teacher turnover hit its highest point since the pandemic last school year, when more than 6,000 Oklahoma public school teachers left the classroom.. The crush of school departures occurred even ...