Oklahoma governor signs two bills for funding during crisis

(AP) Gov. Kevin Stitt has signed two bills to take funds from Oklahoma’s Rainy Day fund to offset a $416 million budget hole blamed largely on and economic downturn due to the coronavirus. But Stitt declined to take action Thursday on a third bill that didn’t include funds for the state’s digital transformation office, a priority for the governor. Stitt said the two bills fully fund state government through April. Energy prices have slumped sharply and non-essential businesses have closed in an effort to slow the spread of the virus which has sickened nearly 1,700 Oklahoma residents. Eighty have died.