| Senator Mike Mazzei
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Financial Planner Education: George Mason University, BA in Government and Politics; College of Financial Planning Legislative Experience: Senate Member, 2004 - present Hometown: Tulsa, OK Party: Republican Audio Message: mp3 / wav |
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| Senator Mike Mazzei is proud to represent the citizens of District 25 in the Oklahoma State Senate, serving portions of South Tulsa, Bixby and Broken Arrow. Senator Mazzei currently serves as Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. Mike Mazzei was elected to the Oklahoma State Senate in 2004 and brings a broad range of financial and business experience to the legislature. In 2007, Senator Mazzei was named to serve as a Republican Assistant Floor Leader in the Oklahoma State Senate. Also, he was named to serve as Co-Chairman of the Finance Committee. In 2008, Mike was re-elected for a second term of office. Mike's priorities for his legislative service are to confront the dangers that have been causing jobs, corporations, teachers and successful retirees to leave Oklahoma. He believes we can pursue the opportunities of successful job growth by reforming Oklahoma's tax policy to be more competitive in the 21st century. He also believes that as we grow personal income, we will have more resources to invest in schools, roads and health care. In his personal profession, Mike Mazzei, CFP®, is the founder and president of The Financial Coach, Inc., which operates a branch of Raymond James Financial Services, Inc. (Member NASD/SIPC) on 71st Street in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The creator of The Foundation Freedom Formula®, Mike develops strategic financial plans for clients to help them protect and grow their money and realize their life and financial goals. Senator Mazzei is a graduate of George Mason University and the College for Financial Planning, and is a member of the Financial Planners Association. Mike belongs to Asbury United Methodist Church and serves on the board for The Salvation Army. Mike and his wife, Noel have five children; the eldest daughter, Maria, triplets Caleb, Carissa, and Mykela, and youngest son, Jackson. Please see www.mikemazzei.org for information about Senator Mazzei. (No public funds are used to support this website. Its contents are the sole responsibility of the individual legislator and are not maintained or controlled by the Oklahoma State Senate.) Legislative Accomplishments 2011 SB347 - Stipulates that any municipal employee, including police officers, convicted of a felony will forfeit taxpayer funded retirement benefits. The convicted employees will retain their personal contributions, but taxpayers should not have to fund retirement for municipal employees who abuse the public trust. SB794 - Eliminates a special retirement benefit feature for Oklahoma elected officials. This feature enabled Oklahoma legislators to accumulate twice the monthly benefit of a regular state employee. Going forward, elected officials will now have the same type of retirement benefit as regular state employees. HB1953 - Establishes a business deal closing fund which will enable Oklahoma to invest in infrastructure projects to attract jobs to Oklahoma. The State will retain a vested interest in all joint public-private business deals with "claw-back" penalties for companies that don't produce the jobs specified for the business project. HB2132 - Requires that all of Oklahoma's six pension systems actually fund all cost of living adjustments. This reduces the total future unfunded liability of the State's pension plans from $16 billion to $10 billion. 2010 SB938 - Created the 21st Century Quality Jobs Incentive Act, which builds on the highly successful Quality Jobs Program to grant even greater incentives to companies who produce jobs which are significantly higher than Oklahoma's average income per person. SB1264 - Allows a person a level of privacy by being able to place a post office box number as their address on a driver’s license, suggested by a constituent after her purse was stolen. SB1267 - Places a moratorium on special interest tax credits. SB1631 - Eliminated the prohibition for municipalities to help develop retail establishment, helping Bixby to collaborate with retailers wishing to locate in Bixby. 2009 SB 909 - Enables new businesses in
Oklahoma to benefit from both the Quality Jobs program and the Investment
Tax Credit program. Oklahoma has been losing business to other
states because both programs were not being offered to potential
new employers. Among companies that will benefit from SB909
is the Holly Corporation as they purchase a local refinery and keep
over 400 jobs in Tulsa that would otherwise have been lost. HB 2067 - An innovative program which allows local government entities to combine efforts and resources for infrastructure, investments and economic development programs. 2008 SB 1641 - closes a loophole in the Oklahoma Public Employees Retirement System that costs taxpayers millions of dollars by allowing certain elected officials with previous government service to collect more money in retirement than they made in office. SB 1943 - provides financing for major destination development and stimulate tourism projects all across Oklahoma at no cost to the taxpayer. SB 2153 - modifies various provisions relating to Oklahoma Quality Jobs Program Act to allow for two significant Tulsa companies to participate in the program which will help them stay in Tulsa and add another 100 high paying jobs. The legislation also clarified the timing aspects of incentives earned by the performance of EDS, one of our important local employers. HB 3239 - provides tax incentives to recruit engineering students for aerospace positions in Oklahoma’s important aerospace industry. 2007 SB 357 - establishes a long-term solution to bring fiscal stability to the Oklahoma Teachers Retirement System by raising employer contributions through the education budget. An annual infusion of an extra $60 million per year should help the woefully underfunded system improve from an unacceptable 50% funded level to an 80% level around the year 2026. SB 861 - provides tax relief to hard-working Oklahomans by (1) accelerating the state income tax reduction from 5.65% to 5.25% one year sooner; (2) establishes our first back-to-school sales tax holiday; (3) eliminates the franchise tax for most small businesses; and (4) provides a tax credit for families with children. SB 407 - allows the Grand River Dam Authority to enter into derivative products and financial instruments to manage interest rate costs in connection with issuing bonds. Also creates the Joint Legislative Task Force on the Grand River Dam Authority to study its functions, policies, procedures and expenditures. HB 2070 - adds the Firefighters, Police and Law Enforcement Retirement Systems to the requirements of the Oklahoma Pension Legislation Actuarial Analysis Act. This will ensure that legislation affecting these systems will have to go through the Senate process of comprehensive cost analysis and funding for any approved legislation. 2006 SB 1771 - creates the Oklahoma State University Medical Authority Act to ensure this hospital and medical teaching university stays in Tulsa for the long-term. SB 1894 - creates the Oklahoma Pension Legislation Actuarial Analysis Act, which requires all changes to the retirement system go through a two-year process in the legislature. An in-depth fiscal analysis must be performed on each proposed change once a bill has been introduced so that lawmakers have a true idea of how the retirement system will be enacted. 2005 SB 1020 - helps protect soldier’s families by creating the Oklahoma Funeral Picketing Act and provides for a specific time and distance protesters can use to picket at funerals. HB 2538 - streamlines the adoption process by allowing an easier process for terminating parental rights. This bill also defined conduct that constitutes the crime of child trafficking. SB 407 - modified the Small Employer Quality Jobs Incentive Act to make the job creation reward program more applicable to technology, research and bio-technology companies.
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