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The commission was established in 1907 and the First Oklahoma Legislature gave the commission authority to regulate public service corporations. [4]Railroad, telephone and telegraph companies were the companies first regulated by the commission, which also collected records of the stockholders, officers and directors of corporations chartered or licensed to do business in Oklahoma. [4]
The Governor appoints, with confirmation by the Oklahoma Senate, the Secretary of State to serve a four-year term that runs concurrently with the term of the Governor.As the office is not elective (the only appointive constitutional office in Oklahoma), a Secretary of State may succeed himself/herself in office as many times as the Governor-elect appoints and the state Senate confirms him or her.
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 .
Bingman, a former secretary of state, ran unsuccessfully for the office against incumbent Bob Anthony in 2018. With Anthony terming out after 36 years, Bingman said there’s a need for someone ...
Brian Bingman, 70, is the former Oklahoma Secretary of State.He was appointed by Gov. Kevin Stitt in 2020. Stitt also appointed him as Secretary of Native American Affairs of Oklahoma. In 2023, he ...
In October 2020, Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt appointed him as the Oklahoma Secretary of State and Oklahoma Secretary of Native American Affairs. His secretarial appointments were approved by the Oklahoma Senate in April 2021. He resigned from the Oklahoma Governor's Cabinet in September 2023 to run for Oklahoma Corporation Commissioner in 2024.
The Corporation Commission later allowed some of the state’s largest public utilities to securitize the debt by adding a monthly surcharge to consumers’ bills that will last for decades.
As Energy Secretary, Smith was responsible for developing fossil energy policy for the State as well as providing oversight to the State's energy agencies, including the Oklahoma Corporation Commission, the Oklahoma Department of Mines, and the Oklahoma Energy Resources Board. Additionally, Secretary Smith served as Governor Keating's official ...