Sen. Carri Hicks’s Press Releases

OKLAHOMA CITY – Improved access to health care, ensuring transparency and accountability in school choice programs on behalf of students, families, and taxpayers, and solving more cold cases, particularly for violent crimes, are among the interim study topics by Sen. Carri Hicks approved by Senate President Pro Tempore Lonnie Paxton this year.

OKLAHOMA CITY – Sen. Carri Hicks, D-Oklahoma City, has been honored for her work promoting policies important to the development of young children throughout the state. The Oklahoma Association for the Education of Young Children (OKAEYC) has recognized Hicks with their Friend of Young Children Award.

OKLAHOMA CITY – A new law authored by Sen. Carri Hicks to better support children with dyslexia will go into effect on July 1, following unanimous approval during the 2025 legislative session. Speaker Pro Tem Anthony Moore served as the House principal author of the measure.

OKLAHOMA CITY – A new law expanding educational opportunities for members of the Oklahoma National Guard takes effect on July 1. Sen.

OKLAHOMA CITY – Sen. Carri Hicks issued the following statement Wednesday in the wake of over 350 terminations at Epic Charter Schools in Oklahoma City and Tulsa, shuttering in-person learning centers for thousands of families. Hicks, a professional educator, said the mass layoffs and closures of in-person learning centers are a painful reminder of what happens when education is treated like a business instead of a public good.

OKLAHOMA CITY – Senate Democrats issued the following statements Thursday addressing their opposition to the fiscal year 2026 budget.

OKLAHOMA CITY – Sen. Carri Hicks issued the following statement Thursday after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Oklahoma Supreme Courts’ ruling against what would have been the nation’s first publicly funded religious charter school.

OKLAHOMA CITY – Sen. Carri Hicks has won full Senate approval for a bipartisan measure increasing access to rapid whole-genome sequencing (rWGS) for critically ill infants.

OKLAHOMA CITY – Sen. Carri Hicks, D-Oklahoma City, has been honored as a 2025 Oklahoma Legislator of the Year for her efforts in the Senate to support the mission of the Oklahoma National Guard.

OKLAHOMA CITY – Sen. Carri Hicks, co-chair of the Legislative Diabetes Caucus, is inviting Oklahomans living with diabetes, their families, and all who are concerned about this disease to come to the state Capitol on Tuesday, April 29 for Diabetes Advocacy Day.