As you likely know, Special Session has ended with the Legislature failing yet again to approve permanent new revenue or a pay raise for teachers. A comprehensive revenue bill, HB 1054, that included an increase in the GPT (gross production tax) on new wells from 2 to 4 percent, failed to get the needed 76 votes in the House. Oil and gas lobbying groups ran expensive ad campaigns opposing a hike in the GPT and hundreds of industry employees swarmed the Capitol in advance of the key vote. 
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