Kristen Thompson

Voted for Senate Bill 1847. It widens who can get Medicaid care at home instead of in a nursing home. The ADvantage program is part of Medicaid. It pays for care at home for people who would otherwise need a nursing home. It was open to people aged 65 and over. It was also open to adults aged 21 and over with a physical disability, but not to those with an intellectual disability or cognitive impairment. For adults with a physical disability, the act lowers the age to 19 and drops that bar. It also adds two groups aged 19 to 64. One is people with a developmental disability but no related intellectual disability. The other is people with a worsening disease that once needed hospital or nursing home care. Care may now be given in an assisted living center that works with the program, as well as at home. People must still qualify for Medicaid and need nursing home level care. The Oklahoma Senate passed it 35-11. It became law without the Governor's signature.

April 20, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Voted for Senate Bill 1344. It pays a drug maker to produce cheaper insulin. The act sets up a program at the State Department of Health. With money the Legislature provides, the department may help pay one or more drug makers. The drug they must work on is a fast-acting copy of an existing insulin. It has to be made in the United States. The maker must put up as much money as the state does. Before any money changes hands, the department has to sign a deal with the maker. In that deal the maker promises to sell the insulin at a low net price. The deal must also let the state take its money back if the maker does not deliver. Makers report to the department each year, and the department reports to the Governor and to legislative leaders. The Oklahoma Senate passed it 32-13. The Governor signed it.

March 24, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Voted to override the Governor's veto of House Bill 1576. It makes Medicaid cover fast gene testing for very ill children. Rapid whole genome sequencing reads a patient's whole genetic code to find the cause of an illness. Under the act it returns first results within seven days and final results within fifteen to twenty-one days. The Oklahoma Health Care Authority must cover it as a service paid for in its own right, subject to any federal approval needed. Three conditions all have to be met. The patient must be under twenty-one. The illness must be serious or sudden with no known cause, and not explained by poisoning, an environmental exposure, an infection responding normally to treatment, or injury. The patient must be in an intensive care unit or another high-dependency unit in hospital. The Authority may still apply medical need rules, and the act lists what those rules must rest on. The Oklahoma Senate voted 36-9 to override the veto. The House did the same, so the bill became law.

May 29, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Voted for Senate Bill 109. It makes health plans pay for cancer gene tests and scans for people at higher risk. The rule covers health plans sold or renewed in the state, including the plan for state workers. A plan must pay for a gene test that looks for an inherited change linked to cancer. That applies where the person or their family has a history of cancer. A plan must also pay for cancer scans for people at higher risk. In both cases a doctor or other provider has to order or recommend the test. The test must be useful in treating the patient and must follow national guidelines. The patient pays no deductible, copay or share of the cost. One limit applies. On a high-deductible plan linked to a health savings account, the rule starts only after the person meets the federal minimum deductible. Care that federal law counts as preventive is covered from the start. The Oklahoma Senate passed it 35-11. It became law without the Governor's signature.

May 21, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Voted for House Bill 2049. It makes the state check that Medicaid health plans cover mental health and addiction care as fully as other care. Parity means a plan may not limit mental health or addiction care more tightly than other care. Oklahoma pays private health plans to run much of its Medicaid coverage. The act tells the Oklahoma Health Care Authority to make sure those plans follow parity law. Each plan's contract must make it test its limits on this care. It must test them regularly, and again whenever it changes a limit, such as a rule on prior approval. The authority must set up a way to take and settle complaints. It must also publish the plans' reports and audits. Any parity report it sends to the federal government must be posted within thirty days. The Oklahoma Senate passed it 33-11. It became law without the Governor's signature.

April 30, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Voted for Senate Bill 259. It tightens the rules on wasting groundwater and bars data centers from cooling with groundwater that evaporates. Groundwater permit holders must report how much water they use. Willfully failing to report used to risk losing the permit. Now it can bring fines, penalties or a suspension. Using less water than a permit allows no longer shrinks the holder's future share. A new rule covers data centers. They may not cool their equipment with groundwater that is lost to evaporation or discharge. A permit for a data center is issued only if its cooling system recycles the water and uses little of it. Anyone may complain about waste to the Oklahoma Water Resources Board. The Board must then act to stop the waste. It may order it stopped, impose rising fines, demand more frequent reports or suspend the permit. The Oklahoma Senate passed it 38-10. The Governor signed it.

May 14, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted for House Bill 3644. It sets rules for hospitals to spot and treat dangerous blood clots. The act is named the Blake Burgess Act. It deals with blood clots in a deep vein, usually in the leg or arm, which can travel to the lungs and kill. Every hospital with an emergency room, and every outpatient surgery center, must adopt policies based on best practice. The policies must cover how to judge a patient's risk with a recognized tool, and how to treat a clot once it is found. Clinical staff who do not hold a professional license must be trained on them every year. The State Department of Health must set up a statewide record of clot cases. From July 1, 2027, each hospital with an emergency room must report its cases to it every year. Assisted living centers must check new residents for signs of a clot and give them a leaflet on the warning signs. The Oklahoma Senate passed it 36-11. The Governor signed it.

April 28, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted to override the Governor's veto of Senate Bill 713. It makes wind farms fit warning lights that stay off until a plane is near. Wind turbines carry red warning lights for aircraft, and these usually blink all night. The act calls for a system that keeps the lights off until it detects a plane nearby, where federal aviation and radio regulators approve one. From January 1, 2026, a new wind farm may not start running until it has applied for such a system. An existing wind farm must apply when it is rebuilt or signs a new long-term deal to sell its power. Once approval comes, the system must be fitted within two years. The wind farm pays for it. A county may issue bonds to help pay for systems on older wind farms. A power company whose rates are set by the state may ask to recover its costs from customers. Wind farms that sit wholly on land their owner holds outright are not covered. The Oklahoma Senate voted 32-15 to override the veto. The House then did the same, so the bill became law.

May 29, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted for House Bill 3467. It extends paid maternity leave for school staff to parents who adopt. School district workers, and teachers at some other state bodies, already get six weeks of paid maternity leave after a birth. The act extends the same leave to the adoption of a child under four years old. The leave must be taken right after the birth or adoption. The act also lets a worker use sick days to care for or bond with an infant, not only a newborn. The Oklahoma Senate passed it 36-10. The Governor signed it.

April 29, 2026Supports Labor Rights

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Voted for Senate Bill 20. It adds immigration and English language checks for commercial truck drivers. The act is called the Oklahoma Secure Roads and Safe Trucking Act of 2025. Anyone driving a commercial vehicle in the state must hold a commercial license from a U.S. state or territory. A license from Canada, Mexico or another country with a matching agreement also counts. But the driver must also carry a valid work visa and proof of citizenship of the country that issued it. A license Oklahoma gives to a driver who is not a U.S. resident now runs out when the driver's visa does. Every commercial driver must also know enough English to talk with the public, read road signs, answer officials and fill in records. A company whose driver breaks these rules is fined $3,000 each time. Its truck is held until it pays and sends a driver who qualifies. The driver may not drive commercially until the problem is fixed, and doing so anyway is a misdemeanor. The act took effect as soon as it was signed. The Oklahoma Senate passed it 36-10. The Governor signed it.

May 21, 2025Opposes Immigration

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Voted for House Bill 3985. It lets property owners in big cities claim money when local government stops enforcing laws against public camping and similar offenses. The act covers cities of more than 130,000 people. It applies when the city or county has a policy or practice of not enforcing certain laws. These are laws against public camping, blocking streets, loitering, begging, public urination, public drinking, drug use and shoplifting. It also applies when the government keeps up a public nuisance. An owner may then claim what they spent to deal with the problem, or the drop in their property's value. Each year's payment is capped at the property tax the owner paid that government the year before. The rest carries forward to later years. The government has thirty days to accept or reject a claim. If the owner sues, the government must prove its actions were lawful or the claim unreasonable. A winning owner gets legal fees. The Oklahoma Senate passed it 30-16. The Governor signed it.

April 29, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted for Senate Bill 743. It raises the penalty for disturbing a religious service and adds a buffer zone outside. Disturbing a religious meeting stays a misdemeanor. The act sets the penalty at a fine of up to $500, up to a year in county jail, or both. A second or later offense becomes a felony. That carries a fine of up to $1,000, up to two years in prison, or both. The act also changes what counts as disturbing a meeting. Knowingly blocking or hindering a person going in or out is now covered. So is coming within eight feet of someone, without their consent, to hand over a leaflet, show a sign or argue a point. That last rule applies on the public path within 100 feet of an entrance. Two old offenses drop out: putting on a show within a mile, and racing or gambling nearby. The act took effect on the day it was signed. The Oklahoma Senate passed it 31-15. The Governor signed it.

February 4, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted to override the Governor's veto of Senate Bill 54. It widens the crime of aggravated drunk driving and makes it a felony. Aggravated driving under the influence used to mean driving with a blood or breath alcohol level of 0.15 or more. The act adds other ways to commit it while impaired. They are causing a crash that must be reported, breaking certain lane and turning rules, fleeing police, speeding 20 miles an hour over the limit or 10 over in an active school zone, carrying a passenger under 18, or driving recklessly. The act says aggravated driving under the influence is a felony. A first offense means at least ten days behind bars, which may be served on nights or weekends. A second means at least thirty days in county jail. An alcohol test no longer has to be taken within two hours of the arrest to count. The Oklahoma Senate voted 33-14 to override the veto. The House did the same, so the bill became law.

May 29, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted for House Bill 3467. It extends paid maternity leave for school staff to parents who adopt. School district workers, and teachers at some other state bodies, already get six weeks of paid maternity leave after a birth. The act extends the same leave to the adoption of a child under four years old. The leave must be taken right after the birth or adoption. The act also lets a worker use sick days to care for or bond with an infant, not only a newborn. The Oklahoma Senate passed it 36-10. The Governor signed it.

April 29, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted for House Bill 4071. It sets up a one-time $250 state deposit into a child's federal Trump Account. A Trump Account is a savings account for children created by federal law. Under the act the State Treasurer may put $250 once into the account of an eligible child. The child must be under eighteen when the application is made, a United States citizen with a Social Security number, and living in Oklahoma. Payments go out in the order applications are checked, and only as money reaches a new state fund set up for the purpose. The act creates that fund but does not itself put money into it. No payment may break a federal limit. The Oklahoma Senate passed it 25-19. The Governor signed it.

April 16, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted for House Bill 3151. It raises the minimum number of school days for districts that count instruction in hours. Oklahoma districts may meet the school year rule by days or by hours. One of the hours options let a district run as few as one hundred sixty-six days as long as it reached one thousand eighty-six hours. From the 2027-2028 school year that floor rises to one hundred seventy-three days. The hours figure does not change. The act also says that where a district holds parent-teacher conferences during the school day and counts them as instruction time, it must offer parents and guardians the choice of meeting in person. None of this takes effect unless the Legislature gives the State Department of Education at least one hundred seventy-five million dollars more in the 2028 budget year than it did in 2026. If that happens, the act starts on July 1, 2027. If not, it never becomes law. The Oklahoma Senate passed it 30-17. The Governor signed it.

April 27, 2026Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted for House Bill 1087. It adds a day to the school year and extends the teacher pay scale for long-serving teachers. Schools must now hold 181 days of classroom instruction a year instead of 180. A school that counts hours instead must hold 1,086 hours instead of 1,080. The state's minimum pay scale for teachers used to stop rising after 25 years. The act adds a step for each year from 26 to 35, so a teacher with a bachelor's degree and 35 years is owed at least $64,077. It also ends two rules on paying for raises. One gave an extra raise to teachers already paid above the scale in 2022-2023. The other had the State Board of Education pay for the scale's raises in districts that get no money from the state aid formula. The Oklahoma Senate passed it 35-12. The Governor signed it.

May 28, 2025Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted for House Bill 1727. It opens the state's free tuition scholarship to more teachers' children and gives students longer to sign up. Oklahoma's Promise pays college tuition for students from families under an income limit who sign up while in school and keep its rules. The act adds the children of classroom teachers with at least ten years in Oklahoma public schools. For them the family income limit is 700 percent of the federal poverty level, far above the usual limit. Principals, superintendents and other administrators do not count as teachers for this purpose. Other students keep the usual limits, set by family size: $60,000 with up to two children, $70,000 with three or four, and $80,000 with five or more. Students may now sign up as late as December 31 of their last year of high school. Nobody aged 21 or older may join. The Oklahoma Senate passed it 35-10. The Governor signed it.

May 28, 2025Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted for Senate Bill 212. It sets up a two-year trial of new routes into teaching. The program is called TeachForwardOK. The Commission for Educational Quality and Accountability runs it. The commission hires outside experts to review teacher training at state colleges. A college program applies, and if it is approved it gets a grant to take part and to pay the reviewer. The review looks at how the program recruits trainees and how many finish, how well it prepares them, whether it meets the state's need for teachers, and how it might reach people who come by a less usual route. The program then has ninety days to say how it will act on what the review found. The act points to routes such as school aides training on the job to become teachers. One program is picked for $500,000 to carry out its plan, if the money is there. The commission reports to state leaders by the end of 2027. The Oklahoma Senate passed it 34-10. It became law without the Governor's signature.

May 22, 2025Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted for Senate Bill 758. It limits how many days of online lessons a school may count as class time. Oklahoma schools must hold 180 days of classroom instruction, or 1,080 hours. From the 2026-2027 school year, a day when school is shut and lessons go online no longer counts toward that total. One narrow exception is left. A district may count up to two such days, or twelve hours, but only if three things line up. The state superintendent must have approved the district's virtual plan. The Governor must have declared an emergency that bears on how schools run. And the local board must approve the closure. The plan must say how the district will teach students on a disability plan, feed students, and carry students to technology center courses. Full-time virtual schools are outside the rule. The state must report each year which districts shut and why. The Oklahoma Senate passed it 33-14. The Governor signed it.

March 27, 2025Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted for Senate Bill 139. It made every school district ban student phones for one school year. For the 2025-2026 school year, each school board had to adopt a policy. The policy had to stop students using phones and personal devices on campus from the first bell to the last bell. It also had to say how the rule would be enforced. For later school years the act only says a board may adopt such a policy. So the requirement lasted one year and then became a choice. Personal devices include smart watches, smart headphones, laptops, tablets and smart glasses. Devices the school hands out for class work do not count. A board may write in exceptions. The act names two: an emergency, and a student who uses a device to track a health problem. The Oklahoma Senate passed it 30-15. The Governor signed it.

March 13, 2025Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted for House Bill 1168. It makes it a felony to supply abortion pills for an illegal abortion. The act creates a new crime: trafficking in an abortion-inducing drug. A person commits it by handing over such a drug, or holding it to hand over, to someone they know means to use it for an unlawful abortion. Having reason to know is enough. The penalty is up to ten years in prison, a fine of up to $100,000, or both. The act names misoprostol and methotrexate when they are prescribed to end a pregnancy. It does not cover the same drugs given for other reasons, or to treat an ectopic pregnancy or a miscarriage. Pharmacists, drug makers and distributors acting lawfully in their usual work are not covered. Nor is birth control used as its maker directs. The Oklahoma Senate passed it 37-10. The Governor signed it.

April 30, 2026Opposes Women's Reproductive Rights

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Voted for Senate Bill 176. It lets people pick up several months of birth control at a time. The rule applies to a health plan that already covers contraceptive drugs. It does not make any plan start covering them. Where a plan does cover them, it must let the member collect a three-month supply the first time, and a six-month supply each time after that. That holds even if the member was on a different plan the first time. Only one six-month supply may be collected in any six-month period. A member may still ask for less, and a prescriber may still write less where that is the right clinical choice. The act says plainly that it does not require any plan to cover medicine that could end a pregnancy. The Oklahoma Senate passed it 30-16. It became law without the Governor's signature.

May 21, 2025Supports Women's Reproductive Rights

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Voted for Senate Bill 1451. It asks people registering to vote where they were registered before, so the old record can be removed. The voter registration form must now ask if the applicant was registered before in another county or state. If so, it asks for the name, address and party used then. Signing the form counts as a request to end that old registration. If the old one was in another state, the State Election Board must tell that state's election office. The Board must also publish a count each year. It covers these notices sent and received, and the records removed because they matched a voter in another state. The act took effect as soon as it was signed. The Oklahoma Senate passed it 35-9. The Governor signed it.

May 14, 2026Supports Election Integrity

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Voted for House Bill 2764. It cuts the state income tax and sets a path to cut it again. The act rewrites the income tax table from the 2026 tax year. Six brackets become four. The top rate falls from 4.75 percent to 4.5 percent. The first $3,750 of taxable income is taxed at nothing, or $7,500 for a couple filing together. The act then sets a trigger for further cuts. Each February the State Board of Equalization weighs tax collections against a base year. If they have grown past a set threshold, every rate falls by another quarter of a percentage point. That can repeat until the rates reach zero. If the state declares a revenue failure, the cut waits for a later reading of the figures. The Oklahoma Senate passed it 34-11. The Governor signed it.

May 22, 2025Supports Personal Income Tax Reduction

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Voted for Senate Bill 991. It adopts a set definition of anti-Semitism for the state to work from. The state adopts a working definition of anti-Semitism. It is the one agreed by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance in 2016, with the examples set out in it. The definition is not binding law on its own. It may be used only as a guide. The uses named are training, education, spotting hate crimes and bias, and tracking reports of anti-Semitic incidents. The act says it does not limit any right protected by the First Amendment or by the state constitution. The Oklahoma Senate passed it 27-15. The Governor signed it.

March 25, 2025Supports Civil Rights

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Voted for Senate Bill 942. It bars discrimination in schools and colleges and treats anti-Semitism as a form of it. The act bans discrimination in public schools and state colleges. It covers students and workers alike. The grounds listed are race, ethnicity, national origin, sex, disability, religion and marital status. Classes, guidance, counseling and financial help must be open to all students on the same terms. Teaching aimed at students learning English, gifted students or students with disabilities is not affected. Nor is any Indian education program. Schools and colleges must also put a set definition of anti-Semitism into their codes of conduct. It is the one agreed by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. They must treat anti-Semitic harassment as they treat harassment based on race. The state school department and the college regents must each name a coordinator. The coordinator takes complaints, looks into them, and gives a school thirty days to put things right. If a school does not, the coordinator reports it to the federal government. The act says it does not limit free speech. The Oklahoma Senate passed it 31-15. The Governor signed it.

March 25, 2025Supports Civil Rights

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Voted for Senate Bill 364. It widens the ban on paddling students with disabilities. Corporal punishment means causing pain on purpose, such as hitting, paddling or spanking. The old law barred school staff from doing this to only some students. It covered students with the most severe thinking and learning disabilities. Even then, the student's yearly school plan could allow it. The act now covers any student who has a disability under federal special education law, and the school plan can no longer allow it. It also deletes a rule that let a parent sign a form allowing the punishment anyway. A yes vote was a vote to widen the ban and drop that parent form. The Oklahoma Senate passed it 31-16. It became law without the Governor's signature.

February 25, 2025Supports Civil Rights

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Voted for Senate Bill 998. It lets electric companies charge customers for new plant sooner and with less review. The Corporation Commission sets electric rates in Oklahoma. It now has 180 days to rule on a plan for a new power plant that runs mainly on gas. The old limit was 240 days. Bids taken in an open contest count as proof that the company weighed other options. The company may also start charging customers for a gas plant while it is still being built. That is before the plant makes any power. If the company drops the project, it must pay the money back with interest. The act adds one more route to charge customers. A company may set aside most of the yearly cost of new equipment and bill it later. The share is ninety percent. That balance goes into rates and is collected over twenty years. The Commission still checks that the spending was sound before the balance enters rates. The Oklahoma Senate passed it 26-20. It became law without the Governor's signature.

March 27, 2025Opposes Corporate Accountability

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On 2024-03-12, the Oklahoma Senate recorded a 33-15 third-reading vote on SB1786 with Senator Kristen Thompson listed as the author.

March 12, 2024

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