Deeper budget cuts are coming for Oklahoma's schools, health care, roads and prisons.
Oklahoma's Secretary of Finance Preston Doerflinger notified state agencies Monday that continued declines in revenue collections will require deeper cuts than the 3 percent reductions that were ordered to begin in January.
Collections to the state treasury have continued to come in below projections, prompting a revenue failure.
The deeper cuts are expected to begin in March, although Doerflinger says the exact percentage reduction won't be determined until next week.
The 3 percent cuts ordered last month are expected to cost public schools about $47 million for the rest of the fiscal year that ends June 30.
Lawmakers are grappling with even deeper cuts of about 13 percent for the fiscal year that begins July 1.
