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ChampionedCriminal Justice

Limit fines, fees, and court costs to only what is needed for restitution, reducing what he described as a debtors'-prison system for low-income Oklahomans.

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ChampionedFact-checker reviewConfidence: 60%

All four cited sources are reachable and every quoted string appears verbatim. The two primary/neutral sources (Oklahoma House, Oklahoma Watch) establish that HB 1460 and HB 1462 are real, enacted fines/fees/restitution reforms — HB 1462 prioritizes victim restitution (directly implementing the 'what is needed for restitution' framing) and HB 1460 eliminates fees and strengthens waivers — signed May 28, 2025, effective Nov. 1, 2025. Because Stitt is a governor who cannot author legislation, the CHAMPIONED leadership standard is met through executive means, and the sources document exactly that: Justice Action Network confirms he 'boldly called on the legislature to reform the state's fines and fees system and get rid of what is essentially a debtor's prison' in his State of the State, and the Fines and Fees Justice Center confirms he hosted a ceremonial signing championing the law as 'the broadest Republican-led criminal justice fee elimination bill in U.S. history.' Agenda-setting plus signing plus public championing is more than a vote or passive support, so CHAMPIONED holds rather than a downgrade to FULL/PARTIAL. Confidence is held at 0.6 (not higher) because the neutral Oklahoma Watch source credits Rep. Tammy West as author/driver, Stitt vetoed other sentencing bills that session, and the promise's full standard ('only what is needed for restitution') was not reached (fees remain; the supervision fee was made discretionary rather than eliminated). None of these rise to UNRATABLE: no source is unreachable, no quote is fabricated, and the outcome does not overstate the documented executive leadership.

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