SENATOR PAXTON FINALLY STOPPED HOLDING SB960 AND WE WON!! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR STAYING LOUD AND PUSHING FOR THESE ESSENTIAL ROAD FUNDS. WE MUST KEEP WATCHING TO ENSURE THIS REVENUE ACTUALLY REACHES OUR LOCAL COMMUNITIES WITHOUT DELAY!!
March 28, 2023
Final supporters
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT OKLAHOMA SENATE BILL 960.
ROCK, SAND AND GRAVEL
1. Senate Bill 960 is not a tax, but rather a county option to allow counties to decide on a severance fee that could provide funds for municipalities and counties for roads and bridges.
2.Oklahoma has a significant aggregate mining industry and is in the top five nationally for the production of aggregates. All 77 counties produce approximately 200 million tons of high-grade NON-RENEWABLE materials including gravel, sand, dolomite and gypsum.
3. Not all counties will vote to impose a severance fee. However, Johnston, Tulsa, Kiowa, Pontotoc, Choctaw Caddo, Bryan, McCurtain, Wagoner, Jackson, Kingfisher, Cleveland, Love, Creek, Osage, Ottawa, Haskell, Murray, Rogers, Comanche, Atoka, Major, Oklahoma, Pittsburgh, Sequoyah, Mayes, Blaine, Canadian, Carter, Seminole, Payne, Washington, Cherokee and Leflore will most likely give it serious consideration. It would mean $1.4 million in revenue for just Johnston County alone!
4. Significant severance fee funds could be used by counties and municipalities to purchase aggregate materials for roads and bridges. Millions of dollars of additional sales could occur for aggregate companies and their profits should subsequently increase.
5. One of the biggest customers for rock, sand and gravel is the state of Texas. Oklahoma could possibly collect millions of dollars from Texas.We are currently collecting NONE. 
6. Oklahoma mining is conducted by many huge aggregate corporations from out of state, and several have headquarters in foreign countries.
Martin Marietta- Raleigh, North Carolina, TXI- Dallas, Texas, US Silica- Frederick, Maryland, Vulcan Aggregates- Birmingham, Alabama, Arbuckle Aggregates- Frisco, Texas, Mill Creek Dolomite- Toronto, Canada, Hanson Aggregates- Maidenhead, England, Mid-State Materials- Topeka, Kansas
Like the oil companies, they have millions invested in land and equipment. They are here to stay.
7. Mining companies have taken a significant Oklahoma non-renewable resource for decades with huge profits, and have never paid any type of gross production fee.
8. Oklahoma is in the top five nationally for the production of sand, rock and gravel and is number three in production of gypsum. Yet there is no severance fee. Arkansas, Wyoming, Ohio, Tennessee, West Virginia, Kentucky, Minnesota, Alabama, Maine, New Hampshire, Florida, and Texas all tax the aggregate industry. 
9. Large trucks are constantly on the move in Oklahoma with the relentless transport of aggregates which damaged roads and bridges with significant cost to taxpayers for repairs. Citizens are delayed for hours on major highways waiting for train loads of aggregates to pass.
10. Recent reports indicate that quality aggregate land north of Ft Worth, Texas is valued at 40 to 60 thousand dollars per acre. Aggregate corporations are coming to Oklahoma and buying relatively cheap ranch land and turning it into multi-million dollar mines.
11. Oklahoma has been complacent in its failure to collect millions of dollars in revenue. Oil companies fund Oklahoma with 1.4 billion dollars annually. MINING CONTRIBUTES ZERO!
SO WHAT CAN YOU DO AS AN OKLAHOMA RESIDENT?
Senate Bill 960 IS NOT A TAX BILL, but rather a COUNTY OPTION BILL which would allow citizens to decide on a severance fee to fund roads, bridges and infrastructure. A similiar bill has passed THREE TIMES in the Ok House of Representatives only to fail in a COMMITTEE in the Oklahoma Senate.
Time is of the essence! We must act NOW or this bill will die once again and not be heard. This has been going on for decades!
SB 960 is currently being held hostage by Senator Lonnie Paxton (Grady Co) in Committee! Please take the time to sign this petition and please contact Senator Paxton at (405)521-5537 and the other Committee members listed below and insist that he stop holding this bill and allow the CITIZENS OF THE COUNTIES to decide what’s best for them!
This petiition will be presented in person at the Oklahoma State Capital to the following Energy & Telecommunications Committee members:
Lonnie Paxton - Committee Chair (R) Tuttle, OK
Insurance Agent, Farmer/Rancher
(405) 521-5537
Grant Green - Vice Chair (R)
Wellston, OK
Farmer/Rancher & Small Business Owner
(405) 521- 5547
Mary Boren (D)
Norman, OK
Educator/Attorney
(405) 521-5553
David Bullard - Author of SB 960 (R)
Durant, OK
Teacher
(405) 521- 5586
Brent Howard (R)
Altus, OK
Attorney
(405) 521-5612
Chris Kidd (R)
Waurika, OK
OK Farmer and Rancher Foundation
(405) 521- 5563
Joe Newhouse (R)
Tulsa, OK
Real Estate Broker
(405) 521- 5675
Dave Radar (R)
Tulsa,OK
Sales
(405) 521-5620
Shane Jett (R)
Shawnee, OK
Veteran/Businessman
(405) 521-5620
Jo Anna Dossett (D)
Tulsa, OK
Teacher
(405) 521- 5624
Tom Woods (R)
Westville. OK
Farmer
(405) 521- 5576
Updates
Reached 100 supporters
February 24, 2023
49 Comments
Get out of your comfortable office and travel to some of the places that have highways that service quarries. Spend 1 day at the intersection of Hwy 48 & Hwy 22 and count the numbetr of big trucks that travel to and from Texas taking our natural resources from OKlahoma. These companies do not pay sales tax to Okla, but pay use tax to Texas. We need this severance fee to help pay for our roads that they are ruining day by day.
The amount of $ per tonnage is such a small part of the cost to the end users, but would greatly benefit our County and the people. We need road work constantly due to damages by heavy trucks. Windshields broken. Potholes damaged tires and suspension. The rails do tie up our traffic and especially dangerous is the delayed emergency response.
Please help us! This is a bill that needs To be passed. Texas is hauling off tons and tons of granite and gravel then crossing the state line and charging a tax on it...on our gravel and we got literally no tax on it! Please please help up!
Please stop holding SB960, and let citizens of each county decide what is best in this matter. You are entrusted with representing your citizens, PLUS all citizens of Oklahoma...not just urban and large mining interests.
Johnston County is a very poor County and the mines are using up our natural resources and ruining our roads. We are not receiving any tax benefit. Please reconsider your decision. Give others the right to tax in their County.
Its way past time to stop taking products minerals and such from our county without paying the taxes. Its not being fair to our county.
Please consider this bill.
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SENATOR PAXTON FINALLY STOPPED HOLDING SB960 AND WE WON!! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR STAYING LOUD AND PUSHING FOR THESE ESSENTIAL ROAD FUNDS. WE MUST KEEP WATCHING TO ENSURE THIS REVENUE ACTUALLY REACHES OUR LOCAL COMMUNITIES WITHOUT DELAY!!
March 28, 2023
Final supporters
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT OKLAHOMA SENATE BILL 960.
ROCK, SAND AND GRAVEL
1. Senate Bill 960 is not a tax, but rather a county option to allow counties to decide on a severance fee that could provide funds for municipalities and counties for roads and bridges.
2.Oklahoma has a significant aggregate mining industry and is in the top five nationally for the production of aggregates. All 77 counties produce approximately 200 million tons of high-grade NON-RENEWABLE materials including gravel, sand, dolomite and gypsum.
3. Not all counties will vote to impose a severance fee. However, Johnston, Tulsa, Kiowa, Pontotoc, Choctaw Caddo, Bryan, McCurtain, Wagoner, Jackson, Kingfisher, Cleveland, Love, Creek, Osage, Ottawa, Haskell, Murray, Rogers, Comanche, Atoka, Major, Oklahoma, Pittsburgh, Sequoyah, Mayes, Blaine, Canadian, Carter, Seminole, Payne, Washington, Cherokee and Leflore will most likely give it serious consideration. It would mean $1.4 million in revenue for just Johnston County alone!
4. Significant severance fee funds could be used by counties and municipalities to purchase aggregate materials for roads and bridges. Millions of dollars of additional sales could occur for aggregate companies and their profits should subsequently increase.
5. One of the biggest customers for rock, sand and gravel is the state of Texas. Oklahoma could possibly collect millions of dollars from Texas.We are currently collecting NONE. 
6. Oklahoma mining is conducted by many huge aggregate corporations from out of state, and several have headquarters in foreign countries.
Martin Marietta- Raleigh, North Carolina, TXI- Dallas, Texas, US Silica- Frederick, Maryland, Vulcan Aggregates- Birmingham, Alabama, Arbuckle Aggregates- Frisco, Texas, Mill Creek Dolomite- Toronto, Canada, Hanson Aggregates- Maidenhead, England, Mid-State Materials- Topeka, Kansas
Like the oil companies, they have millions invested in land and equipment. They are here to stay.
7. Mining companies have taken a significant Oklahoma non-renewable resource for decades with huge profits, and have never paid any type of gross production fee.
8. Oklahoma is in the top five nationally for the production of sand, rock and gravel and is number three in production of gypsum. Yet there is no severance fee. Arkansas, Wyoming, Ohio, Tennessee, West Virginia, Kentucky, Minnesota, Alabama, Maine, New Hampshire, Florida, and Texas all tax the aggregate industry. 
9. Large trucks are constantly on the move in Oklahoma with the relentless transport of aggregates which damaged roads and bridges with significant cost to taxpayers for repairs. Citizens are delayed for hours on major highways waiting for train loads of aggregates to pass.
10. Recent reports indicate that quality aggregate land north of Ft Worth, Texas is valued at 40 to 60 thousand dollars per acre. Aggregate corporations are coming to Oklahoma and buying relatively cheap ranch land and turning it into multi-million dollar mines.
11. Oklahoma has been complacent in its failure to collect millions of dollars in revenue. Oil companies fund Oklahoma with 1.4 billion dollars annually. MINING CONTRIBUTES ZERO!
SO WHAT CAN YOU DO AS AN OKLAHOMA RESIDENT?
Senate Bill 960 IS NOT A TAX BILL, but rather a COUNTY OPTION BILL which would allow citizens to decide on a severance fee to fund roads, bridges and infrastructure. A similiar bill has passed THREE TIMES in the Ok House of Representatives only to fail in a COMMITTEE in the Oklahoma Senate.
Time is of the essence! We must act NOW or this bill will die once again and not be heard. This has been going on for decades!
SB 960 is currently being held hostage by Senator Lonnie Paxton (Grady Co) in Committee! Please take the time to sign this petition and please contact Senator Paxton at (405)521-5537 and the other Committee members listed below and insist that he stop holding this bill and allow the CITIZENS OF THE COUNTIES to decide what’s best for them!
This petiition will be presented in person at the Oklahoma State Capital to the following Energy & Telecommunications Committee members:
Lonnie Paxton - Committee Chair (R) Tuttle, OK
Insurance Agent, Farmer/Rancher
(405) 521-5537
Grant Green - Vice Chair (R)
Wellston, OK
Farmer/Rancher & Small Business Owner
(405) 521- 5547
Mary Boren (D)
Norman, OK
Educator/Attorney
(405) 521-5553
David Bullard - Author of SB 960 (R)
Durant, OK
Teacher
(405) 521- 5586
Brent Howard (R)
Altus, OK
Attorney
(405) 521-5612
Chris Kidd (R)
Waurika, OK
OK Farmer and Rancher Foundation
(405) 521- 5563
Joe Newhouse (R)
Tulsa, OK
Real Estate Broker
(405) 521- 5675
Dave Radar (R)
Tulsa,OK
Sales
(405) 521-5620
Shane Jett (R)
Shawnee, OK
Veteran/Businessman
(405) 521-5620
Jo Anna Dossett (D)
Tulsa, OK
Teacher
(405) 521- 5624
Tom Woods (R)
Westville. OK
Farmer
(405) 521- 5576
Updates
Reached 100 supporters
February 24, 2023
49 Comments
Johnston County is one of the poorest counties in the state but has no income from the mining companies. That is wrong! Our roads are impacted by the many trucks using and destroying our roads. We need for the mining companies to pay their fair share to support our county instead of draining our county of non renewable resources. It is time for the mining companies to step up and do what is right! Our counties know what is best for us. Please quit the politics and let us decide what is best for us.
Get out of your comfortable office and travel to some of the places that have highways that service quarries. Spend 1 day at the intersection of Hwy 48 & Hwy 22 and count the numbetr of big trucks that travel to and from Texas taking our natural resources from OKlahoma. These companies do not pay sales tax to Okla, but pay use tax to Texas. We need this severance fee to help pay for our roads that they are ruining day by day.
The amount of $ per tonnage is such a small part of the cost to the end users, but would greatly benefit our County and the people. We need road work constantly due to damages by heavy trucks. Windshields broken. Potholes damaged tires and suspension. The rails do tie up our traffic and especially dangerous is the delayed emergency response.
Please help us! This is a bill that needs To be passed. Texas is hauling off tons and tons of granite and gravel then crossing the state line and charging a tax on it...on our gravel and we got literally no tax on it! Please please help up!
Please stop holding SB960, and let citizens of each county decide what is best in this matter. You are entrusted with representing your citizens, PLUS all citizens of Oklahoma...not just urban and large mining interests.
Johnston County is a very poor County and the mines are using up our natural resources and ruining our roads. We are not receiving any tax benefit. Please reconsider your decision. Give others the right to tax in their County.
Its way past time to stop taking products minerals and such from our county without paying the taxes. Its not being fair to our county.
Please consider this bill.
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Johnston County is one of the poorest counties in the state but has no income from the mining companies. That is wrong! Our roads are impacted by the many trucks using and destroying our roads. We need for the mining companies to pay their fair share to support our county instead of draining our county of non renewable resources. It is time for the mining companies to step up and do what is right! Our counties know what is best for us. Please quit the politics and let us decide what is best for us.