2011 Legislative Accomplishments:SB347 - Stipulates that any municipal employee, including police officers, convicted of a felony will forfeit taxpayer funded retirement benefits. The convicted employees will retain their personal contributions, but taxpayers should not have to fund retirement for municipal employees who abuse the public trust.SB782 - Eliminates a provision in the law which required a second set of actuarial reports to be done for each of Oklahoma's six pension systems. These second reports created unnecessary expenses for the systems.SB794 - Eliminates a special retirement benefit feature for Oklahoma elected officials. this feature enabled Oklahoma legislators to accumulate twice the monthly benefit of a regular state employee. Going forward, elected officials will now have the same type of retirement benefit as regular state employees.SB891 - Raises the retirement age for new hire teachers from age 62 to 65. It also requires school districts to pay retirement benefits for teachers who early retire and then return to the school district to work for lesser pay. The estimated long term savings to the Teacher Retirement System is $1.6 Billion.HB1010 - Raises the retirement age for new judges and justices to age 67.HB1285 - Establishes a task force to study all of Oklahoma's income tax preference items to determine which tax credits are obsolete and ineffective.HB1953 - Establishes a business deal closing fund which will enable Oklahoma to invest in infrastructure projects to attract jobs to Oklahoma. The State will retain a vested interest in all joint public-private business deals with "clawback" penalties for companies that don't produce the jobs specified for the business project.HB2132 - Requires that all of Oklahoma's six pension systems actually fund all cost of living adjustments. This reduces the total future unfunded liability of the State's pension plans from $16 billion to $10 billion.
 
2010 Legislative Accomplishments:SB938 - Created the 21st Century Quality Jobs Incentive Act, which builds on the highly successful Quality Jobs Program to grant even greater incentives to companies who produce jobs which are significantly higher than Okalhoam's average income per person.SB1264 - Allows a person a level of privacy by being able to place a post office box number as their address on a drivers license, suggested by a constituent after her purse was stolen.SB1267 - Places a moratorium ons pecial interest tax credits.SB1631 - Eliminated the prohibition for municipalities to help develop retail establishment, helping Bixby to collaborate with retailers wishing to locate in Bixby.

2009 Legislative Accomplishments: SB909 - Enables new businesses in Oklahoma to benefit from the Quality Jobs program and the Investment Tax Credit program. Oklahoma has been losing business to other states because both programs were not being offered to potential new employers. Among companies that will benefit from SB909 is the Holly Corporation as they purchase a local refinery and keep over 400 jobs in Tulsa that would otherwise have been lost.SB938 - The 21st Century Quality Jobs Act now gives Oklahoma the premier business incentive program in the country. HB2067 - An innovative program which allows local government entities to combine efforts and resources for infrastructure, investments and economic development programs.