Rob Hall for Oklahoma House

“The sad truth is that an average Oklahoma student with perfect attendance would be considered chronically absent in Kansas, Arkansas, Texas, Mississippi, Florida and numerous other states,” - Quote from my committee presentation on HB 3151

Glad to see my bill focused on increasing classroom instructional time is getting some attention around the state! It was featured on the front page of the Tulsa World today and was the focus of a segment on OKC’s channel 9 evening news.

https://www.news9.com/oklahoma-city-education/how-a-new-bill-aims-to-improve-oklahoma-education

It’s been a whirlwind start to the legislative session at the Capitol! In the past two weeks, I’ve presented seven bills in committee. All seven bills have passed and are moving on to the next step in the legislative process!

✅ HB 3720 - Food Freedom bill to expand access to healthy, local options by eliminating overburdensome government regulation on small food businesses.

✅ HB 3151 - Improve our educational outcomes by increasing the number of days that students are receiving in-person instruction in the classroom.

✅ HB 3281 - Guidance document transparency so that Oklahomans aren’t being misled by “shadow guidance”.

✅ HB 3257 - Veterans who are 100% Disabled due to medical malpractice at a VA facility receive full state benefits.

✅ HB 3280 - Increases the revenue cap for allowable sales under the Homemade Food Freedom Act.

✅ HB 3069 - Charter schools are allowed to apply with the authorizer of their choice.

✅ HB 3372 - Bill to decrease the interest rate that charter schools pay on debt from building, buying, or renovating facilities.

👉🏼I am also a coauthor on HB 4420, which is the early elementary literacy bill that I’ve been working on with Speaker Hilbert and his team for several months. It passed the A&B Education Subcommittee today, and will move on to the full A&B Committee soon!

I’m thankful for your all’s support in District 67 and for the chance to work toward a more fair, more prosperous, and more free Oklahoma for all of us!

🏀 Go Trojans!!! 🏀 Great to get away from the Capitol midweek and get back to District 67 to catch a Jenks basketball game with the kids!

Bonus 📸: Back in my glory days playing basketball at Olathe East High School up in Kansas City.

Year 2 at the Capitol is underway! So glad my wife and youngest son were able to join me to kick off the session!

Looking forward to a productive four months representing the people of District 67 as we work toward a brighter future for the great state of Oklahoma!

Happy to see HB 3720, the Access to Healthy Local Food Act, on this list! This bill empowers small food producers and farmers by allowing them to sell their lower-risk, locally-produced food direct-to-consumer without having to jump through burdensome regulatory hurdles, provided they clearly label the food and disclose to their customers that the production facility is not licensed and inspected.

The end result will be a more vibrant local food ecosystem through lower barriers to entry and increased consumer access to minimally-processed food.

Tomorrow! Oklahoma’s Legislative Session begins. 🔥MOHA BILL AGENDA & THE latest February news on health freedom and parental rights just hit inboxes, including an Executive Order to MOHA! Thank you, Governor Kevin Stitt!

Proud to play a part in ensuring these much needed Garnett Road improvements happen between 91st & 101st, just a mile east of District 67!

“Numerous members of the Oklahoma Legislature, including…Rob Hall…were also instrumental in advancing the project, county officials said.”

Construction timeline is TBD.

County lands major grant for Garnett Road project | Broken Arrow Sentinel The FEMA hazard mitigation grant will fund a critical infrastructure project along South Garnett Road and the 101st Street East Avenue South.

Tonight’s evening reading: 2026 Oklahoma Teacher of the Year applications! I was honored to be selected as a judge this year for this prestigious competition!

It’s been so inspiring to go through each of the 10 applications I was assigned to review and hear the stories of these teachers who are pouring their lives into our Oklahoma students!

There have been many worthy applicants, and I’m excited to see who ends up representing our state in this important role for the upcoming year! Thank you teachers for all you do for our students and for our state!

Oklahoma Speaker’s Ball 2026 was a great night to celebrate the upcoming session and support Oklahoma Warriors Honor Flight! Unfortunely, Rebekah wasn’t able to join me at the Ball due to the weather, so this picture from the Governor’s Christmas Party will have to substitute for what would have been a stunning picture of her in a blue ball gown to celebrate America 250!

Please see the attached open letter regarding State Question 836 that I was proud to sign onto alongside 111 of my legislative colleagues from across the state.

Welcome to Week 3 of The Faith of our Founders, a weekly series reflecting on the role of faith in the lives of our nation’s founders in honor of America’s 250th anniversary!

What better place to look for clues about the faith of our founders than in the founding documents themselves! As we will see, the founders were not shy about referencing and appealing to God in even the most formal of political pronouncements.

Today, we will examine the references to God in the Declaration of Independence and see what they reveal to us about the attributes of God as understood by the founders. And if you haven’t read the Declaration in a while, I’d recommend stopping and giving it a read-through now in order to get the full context for the quotes below.

THE CREATOR
“…the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God…” – The founders did not view the natural world as either self-existent or supreme. Nature has a God who created it and sets the rules by which it is governed.

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights…” – Just like nature, man was also created by a Creator. Man is not supreme in the universe either, but he is a subordinate creature.

NO RESPECTER OF PERSONS
“…all men are created equal…” – While this phrase seems obvious and almost trite to us, it represents a radical departure from the view of almost all societies throughout history.

When the Declaration says that all men are created equal, it is echoing the Biblical idea that every single person is an equal bearer of the “Imago Dei” (Image of God, Gen. 1:26-27), from the king to the commoner. This doesn’t mean that every person is equally gifted or situated, but it does mean that every person is equally valuable.

And when it says that they are “created equal,” the implication is that this equality is decreed by the God who the Bible says is “no respecter of persons” (Acts 10:34, KJV). This phrase means He doesn’t show favoritism to the rich, powerful, or beautiful like our world so often does.

THE GIVER OF RIGHTS
“…they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights…” – The founders firmly believed that Human Rights come from God, not Government. And these rights are “unalienable.” They belong to each person by virtue of their humanity. They are inherent, irrevocable, non-refundable, and non-transferable!

"To secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men…” – In their eyes, the purpose of government is to protect the rights that pre-exist government itself, namely: “Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.”

THE SUPREME JUDGE
“…appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world…” – When the founders wrote the Declaration, they were conscious that they were not simply defending the legitimacy of their political break with Great Britain before men, but before God himself. They viewed God as omniscient (all-knowing) to the point of evaluating even the motivations of their heart. They trusted him to judge the “rectitude [righteousness] of our intentions."

And on that point, they believed that he would act as Judge. And a Judge gives a judgement, a declaration of what is right and what is wrong. The founders did not live in a world of moral relativism. They believed that there was such a thing as right and wrong, and that they were in the right in their dispute with the Crown.

THE PROTECTOR AND GUIDE
“…with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence…” – In the closing sentence of the Declaration, the founders again appealed to God for help in their endeavor. They did not view him as the distant “watchmaker” god of Deism, but as a God who was intimately involved and interested in the affairs of man. They looked to Him for protection, oversight, guidance, and care as they risked “our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor” to break from Britain and take the first steps of creating what we know and enjoy today as the United States of America.

As can be clearly seen from all of the above quotes, the founders did not view declaring independence from Great Britain as a totally secular political endeavor, divorced from any theological inputs or implications.

Instead, they recognized God's creative work in the past, appealed to his divine justice in the present, and relied upon his watchful protection in the future. Their faith had a distinct impact on our founding!