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“The business courts was the big thing that we've kind of had back and forth a little bit, and I think we're at a good spot,” Stitt said after both chambers had passed the bill May 28.

Implementing the process and procedures for the courts was one of four policy issues Stitt and legislative leaders identified May 14 as part of the fiscal year 2026 budget agreement. It was the last to be considered.

“Let’s get business courts finished this session and make sure business disputes and complicated contracts will be handled by judges with business expertise,” Stitt said at the time.

The creation business courts was one of the proposals Stitt highlighted in his penultimate State of the State address in February.

Establishing the courts played a big role in last year's and this year's budget negotiations. During the 2024 negotiations, passing business court legislation was one of the conditions Stitt set to not veto the FY25 budget. Lawmakers agreed and passed SB 473.

"On the other hand, he states that the business courts will be ‘division[s] within the existing courts of two judicial districts’ and ‘divisions within the district court system.’ Either way, SB 632 is unconstitutional.”

“We find the Governor’s arguments internally inconsistent,” wrote Justice Noma Gurich for the five-justice majority. “One on hand, he asserts that business court judges are not district court judges because the business court is not part of the district court.

The Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the new business courts created earlier this year by the Legislature and Gov. Kevin Stitt were unconstitutional.

Here is the agenda for that meeting:

Good morning, early birds! Superintendent of Public Instruction Lindel Fields will chair his first State Board of Education meeting today.

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Fields will preside over his first meeting as state superintendent Thursday when the state board holds a special meeting. Here is the agenda for that meeting: https://t.co/UhdYhny1C0

A proposal will be brought before the state board at its October 23 meeting, he said. The request put before the board September 25 totaled $4.0 billion, $96.1 million less than the current fiscal year's budget.

Kristin Stephens, chief financial officer for Tulsa Public Schools who is on loan to State Department of Education, will be reviewing the proposed budget that was put before the board in September, Fields said, and determining whether changes need to be made.

The agency already had missed the October 1 deadline after the state board voted September 25 to postpone action on the proposed budget at then-outgoing Superintendent Ryan Walters' final meeting.

Speaking to reporters for the first time since he was appointed Thursday by Gov. Kevin Stitt and just over an hour after he was administered the oath of office, Fields said the agency had been granted an extension to deliver its budget request.