Legislative Alerts
Constitutional Home Educators Alliance is hard at work educating our communities on issues that affect home education and parental rights. We are monitoring many pieces of legislation and have compiled them here for you to review. If you would like to contact your legislators about any of these issues but do not know who they are, you can find them by clicking HERE.
Each year, after Thanksgiving, we start the process of scanning through every piece of legislation as it is filed. This is something that has to be done daily and that takes hundreds of man hours. If you would like to help in this process, we would appreciate and welcome your participation.
Please contact us if you feel this is a way you can help to protect your home education freedom.
Empowerment or Enticement?
School choice is the conversation to be had this year in the home education and legislative world. New bills are knowing at our back doors, wanting us to accept "free "help" in the form of government funding. We are strongly opposed to any legislation that provides government funding for the Oklahoma home education community. When the government pays for private school, it is n longer privately funded, and therefore, no longer private. When the government pays for your home education, you are no longer constitutional home educators, free to teach your children as you see fit. Accepting government funds means accepting government oversight and regulation. Oklahoma is unique in that, we have the choice to choose from three forms of education for our children. We already have public, private and other means. When the government pays for all three choices, the choice goes away, and the only "choice" is the location.
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Read THIS PDF for more information on the above mentioned bills and why the Oklahoma Constitutional home education community does not support school "choice", vouchers, and ESA's.
SB1471
This is a bill we at Constitutional Home Educators wrote as a response to the continued push for "helping" home educators offset the cost of their education. It is a tax credit, and eliminates the need to accept any form government funding. You can read more about this bill HERE.
Both of these bills have passed the Education Committee and are headed to the Appropriations Committee.
We need you to make calls, asking for NO VOTES for this bill.
Contact Senator Treat’s office and kindly tell him you disapprove of this bill - 4055215632
Contact your Senator and ask them to vote NO if these bills get to the floor.
Contact the Appropriations Committee members and ask them to vote NO on these bills.
👤Senate Appropriations Committee Members:
Roger Thompson, Chair- 4055215588
Chuck Hall, Vice Chair - 4055215628
Kim David - 4055215590
Michael Brooks - 4055215557
JJ Dossett - 4055215566
Tom Dugger - 4055215572
Kay Floyd - 4055215610
John Haste - 4055215602
Brent Howard - 4055215612
Darcy Jech - 4055215545
Chris Kid - 4055215563
Julia Kirt - 4055215636
Kevin Matthews - 4055215598
John Michael Montgomery - 4055215567
Joe Newhouse - 4055215675
Dewayne Pemberton - 4055215533
Frank Simpson - 4045215607
Roland Pederson - 4055215630
Darrell Weaver - 4055215569
Dave Rader - 4055215620
Paul Rossino - 4055215618
💻 **see webpages below for information on why we do not support entitlements (vouchers or ESA’s).**
https://www.constitutionalhomeeducators.org/esa
🚨SB1509 & HB4208
Contact your elected representatives ASAP and kindly ask them to vote NO on the following bills. These are both equal access bills.
🚨SB 1509-
Contact Senator Murdock’s office and kindly ask him to withdraw the bill - 4055215626
Contact your Senator and ask them to vote NO if this bill gets to the floor.
Contact the education committee members and ask them to vote NO on this bill.
👤Senate Education Committee Members:
Adam Pugh, Chair - 4055215622
Dewayne Pemberton, Vice Chair - 4055215533
Nathan Dahm - 4055215551
JJ Dosseh - 4055215566
Tom Dugger - 4055215572
Carri Hicks - 4055215543
Joe Newhouse - 4055215675
Marty Quinn - 4055215555
Brenda Stanley - 4055215584
Zack Taylor - 4055215547
Blake Stephens - 4055215574
Jo Anna Dossett - 4055215624
Jake Merrick - 4055215592
🚨HB 4208-
Contact Representative Echols’ office and kindly ask him to withdraw the bill - 4055577354
Contact your Representative and ask them to vote NO if this bill gets to the floor.
Contact the education committee members and ask them to vote NO on this bill.
👤House Education Committee Members:
Rhonda Baker, Chair - 4055577311
Mark Vancuren, Vice Chair - 4055577377
Brad Boles - 4055577405
Chad Caldwell - 4055577317
Sherrie Conley - 4055577308
Ronny Johns - 4055577336
Dick Lowe - 4055577401
Melissa Provenzano - 4055577330
Randy Randleman - 4055577375
Dustin Roberts - 4055577366
Jacob Rosecrants - 4055577329
Todd Russ - 4055577312
John Waldron - 4055577410
Tammy West - 4055577348
💻 **see webpage below for information on why we do not support equal access bills.**