Collaborators and partners representing the Tulsa Regional Chamber’s OneVoice advocacy initiative settled on 30 legislative priorities Thursday at the OneVoice Regional Legislative Summit at the DoubleTree by Hilton Tulsa Hotel Downtown.

About 200 people attended the event and voted on the 2024 OneVoice Agenda. OneVoice chose its priorities through the collaboration of more than 500 people representing hundreds of businesses and more than 75 chambers of commerce, municipalities, counties and economic development organizations.

Task forces met throughout the fall to generate policy positions and issues, picking seven to target on both the state and federal levels. Attendees at Thursday’s summit selected a total of 16 more priorities to place on the OneVoice Agenda, which will guide Chamber advocacy throughout 2024.

Among the summit speakers were John Sullivan, a federal lobbyist and former member of the U.S. House of Representatives; Robert Aery, deputy chief of staff and counsel to Oklahoma First District Congressman Kevin Hern; and Greg Treat, Oklahoma State Senate Pro Tempore.

“I can’t underscore enough how important this process is,” Treat said.

State priorities on the OneVoice Agenda are Oklahoma kindergarten-through-12th-grade funding and governance; creating a sustainable future for workforce development and higher education; addressing children’s mental health; modernizing state housing laws; supporting the state’s film industry; modernizing, connecting and broadening the region’s industrial and logistics ecosystem to drive economic growth; funding the Arkansas River levee system; supporting crucial economic development programs; promoting robust energy production; modernizing the Open Meetings Act; expanding support for working families; expanding the healthcare workforce; supporting the Department of Tourism’s promotional fund; supporting critically needed transportation funding; and backing the advanced mobility cluster.

Federal priorities on the OneVoice Agenda are maximizing domestic energy security; increasing oversight of foreign-owned land; reforming federal financial aid; protecting and strengthening the healthcare workforce; encouraging more affordable housing; designating Route 66 as a dedication national trail; completing U.S. 412 designation and corridor improvements; addressing infrastructure needs of Tulsa’s levee system; accelerating permitting and energy and infrastructure projects; supporting businesses under new federal cybersecurity provisions; federal immigration reform; removing barriers needed for psychiatric inpatient treatment; expanding federal historic tax credits; increasing funding for the McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System; and encouraging the extension of the American Indian Lands Tax Credit.