Gov’s Shelter Bill Fails In Senate After Two Tries In House
Oklahoma school tornado shelter measure: Fails, passes, then fails again
by Rick Green
A year and three days after seven children were killed when a tornado hit Plaza Towers Elementary in Moore, the Oklahoma Senate ended its session Friday with a rejection of a proposal for school storm shelters.
“Of course I didn’t vote for it personally,” Senate President Pro Tem Brian Bingman said after the yearly session ended. “I didn’t think there was a need for it.”
The proposal, which was approved Thursday night by the Oklahoma House, called for a statewide vote on allowing school districts, with local voter approval, to increase their bonding authority once to build tornado shelters.
Bingman said 97 percent of school districts already have the ability within their existing bonding authority to seek such public safety improvements. Among school districts that could benefit from the plan, there isn’t much interest in local school bond measures to fund tornado shelters, he said.
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