Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
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 ...
The Oklahoma Legislature meets in the Oklahoma State Capitol. The legislative branch is the branch of the Oklahoma state government that creates the laws of Oklahoma. The Oklahoma Legislature, which makes up the legislative branch, consists of two chambers: the Senate and the House of Representatives. The state legislature has the power to levy ...
Kevin Stitt appointed Bingman to serve as secretary of state in 2020, and then also secretary of Native American affairs. He resigned in 2023 to run for the commission. “It’s one of the most ...
In North Dakota, the secretary of state is a member of, and ex officio secretary to, the Emergency Commission. [38] In Ohio, the secretary of state is a member of the Apportionment Board, which meets every decade following the decennial census to redraw boundaries for each of the 99 Ohio House and 33 Ohio Senate districts. Other members of the ...
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.