Kevin W. Norwood

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 House passed it 68-22. The Governor signed it.

April 29, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Voted for House Bill 3834. It lets the state help pay for trials of ibogaine, a psychedelic drug studied as a treatment for addiction. The State Department of Health may contract with a drug developer to run trials aimed at winning federal approval for ibogaine, if money is available. The developer must already have a similar deal with at least one other state. It must match the state's money dollar for dollar and run the trials in Oklahoma, using local clinicians and patients where it can. It must also plan how Oklahomans will get the treatment once it is approved, including people who are uninsured or on low incomes. The state gets a share of any profits from the research, in line with what it paid. That money goes into a fund for research and programs on brain injury, opioid addiction and other mental health conditions. Doctors may not be disciplined just for suggesting that a patient join a trial. The act takes effect on November 1, 2026. The Oklahoma House passed it 69-21. The Governor signed it.

May 6, 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 House passed it 68-21. The Governor signed it.

May 5, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted for Senate Bill 2084. It caps what a state college may pay a professor to settle a state-law claim of being fired unlawfully. Claims under federal law are not capped. The cap is two years of the professor's pay on the day they were let go. It applies to colleges in the state system. It covers every way a claim can end. That means a deal the two sides agree, an arbitrator's award, or a court judgment. Back pay, damages and any other money awarded all count toward the cap. Some things sit outside it. Those are retirement money already earned, unpaid wages and unused leave. Staff who are not faculty are not covered. Nor is any written contract with such a worker. The cap starts on November 1, 2026. The Oklahoma House passed it 70-21. The Governor signed it.

May 6, 2026Opposes Labor Rights

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Voted for Senate Bill 1618. It makes a court use a risk report before setting release terms in a violent case. A public safety report is a risk assessment. A pretrial release program runs it. It predicts how likely a defendant is to miss court, or to be arrested again, while waiting for trial. The report may set out the person's past convictions, pending charges, past failures to turn up, any current supervision or bail, open warrants and any protective order against them. A court may use such a report when it sets the terms of release. Where the charge is a violent crime, the court must use one. The report may not be the only reason to grant or refuse release. Both sides get the results on request. The Oklahoma House passed it 62-23. The Governor signed it.

May 4, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted for Senate Bill 137. It bars one more group of inmates from serving time at home on an electronic monitor. The Department of Corrections may let some inmates serve part of a sentence at home, tracked by an ankle monitor. The program is only for crimes the law does not class as violent. The law already lists many inmates who may not take part, such as those convicted of domestic abuse or a sex offense. The act adds one more group. It covers people convicted of causing a crash that badly hurt someone else while driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs. The rest of the act only tidies wording. The Oklahoma House passed it 72-18. It became law without the Governor's signature.

April 28, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted for Senate Bill 1833. It moves to stop food aid being spent on sweets and fizzy drinks. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, is federal food aid, so the state cannot narrow it on its own. The act tells the Department of Human Services to ask the federal government for a waiver, and to bar candy and soft drinks once that waiver is granted. The Director may seek to exclude other food the Director judges to have no nutritional value. The waiver request must argue public health, the purpose of the program in law, and savings to taxpayers. It must show that shop tills can enforce the rule, set out how recipients will be told about healthier options, and track what the change does to spending and to health. If the waiver comes through, the department has six months to bring the restriction in, and it reports to the Governor and legislative leaders each year. The Oklahoma House passed it 62-17. The Governor signed it.

April 29, 2026Opposes 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 House passed it 61-30. The Governor signed it.

April 14, 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 House passed it 62-28. The Governor signed it.

March 11, 2026Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted for Senate Bill 1443. It tells health plans to take account of how sick a patient is when they pay for anesthesia. Anesthesia is the medicine that puts a patient to sleep or blocks pain for an operation. When a plan decides whether that care was needed and what to pay for it, the act makes it weigh two things. The first is the patient's physical condition, graded on a standard scale by the treating doctor. The second is how complex and how urgent the care was, again as the treating doctor judges it. The act then fixes what the sickest patients are worth in payment terms. A patient with severe disease adds one base unit, one whose disease is a constant threat to life adds two, and one not expected to survive without the operation adds three. Plans that cover Medicaid members under a separate state act are outside this rule. The Oklahoma House passed it 68-17. The Governor signed it.

May 5, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability

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Voted against Senate Bill 504. It ends marriage before the age of eighteen. Before the act, someone under eighteen could marry if a parent or guardian agreed. Someone under sixteen could marry if a judge agreed. A judge could agree in two cases. One was to settle a court case over paternity. The other was where the girl was pregnant or had given birth. The act deletes all of that. From November 1, 2026, only a person who is at least eighteen may marry. The rule against marrying a close relative stays. The Oklahoma House passed it 51-36. It became law without the Governor's signature.

May 6, 2026

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